Triple

T19255347
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Five Weeks in a Balloon E481501 entity
Predicate hasCharacterRole P12208 FINISHED
Object Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer
Dr. Samuel Fergusson is the fictional British scientist-explorer who leads the pioneering balloon expedition across Africa in Jules Verne’s novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon."
E1366688 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer | Statement: [Five Weeks in a Balloon, hasCharacterRole, Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer
Context triple: [Five Weeks in a Balloon, hasCharacterRole, Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer]
  • A. Sir William Fawcett
    Sir William Fawcett was an 18th-century British Army general and military administrator who held several high-ranking commands and staff positions.
  • B. Samuel Fleming
    Samuel Fleming was an early settler and tavern owner in colonial New Jersey whose prominence in the area led to the town of Flemington being named in his honor.
  • C. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • D. Sir Frederick Ballantyne
    Sir Frederick Ballantyne was a Vincentian physician and public figure who served as the long-standing Governor-General and representative of the British monarch in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  • E. Professor Horatio Smith
    Professor Horatio Smith is the fictional, eccentric Cambridge archaeologist who secretly rescues victims from the Nazis in the 1941 British film "Pimpernel Smith."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer
Triple: [Five Weeks in a Balloon, hasCharacterRole, Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer]
Generated description
Dr. Samuel Fergusson is the fictional British scientist-explorer who leads the pioneering balloon expedition across Africa in Jules Verne’s novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Samuel Fergusson is an explorer
Target entity description: Dr. Samuel Fergusson is the fictional British scientist-explorer who leads the pioneering balloon expedition across Africa in Jules Verne’s novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon."
  • A. Sir William Fawcett
    Sir William Fawcett was an 18th-century British Army general and military administrator who held several high-ranking commands and staff positions.
  • B. Samuel Fleming
    Samuel Fleming was an early settler and tavern owner in colonial New Jersey whose prominence in the area led to the town of Flemington being named in his honor.
  • C. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • D. Sir Frederick Ballantyne
    Sir Frederick Ballantyne was a Vincentian physician and public figure who served as the long-standing Governor-General and representative of the British monarch in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  • E. Professor Horatio Smith
    Professor Horatio Smith is the fictional, eccentric Cambridge archaeologist who secretly rescues victims from the Nazis in the 1941 British film "Pimpernel Smith."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8e8cd9d1081908a181d02b88b59b8 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fb3459d08190a7c28ed3f8c82a97 completed April 20, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0705e746688190888834aa0206ac07 completed May 15, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0706d7c63c8190a7114937af40b294 completed May 15, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a070763ca5c81908afa73b30645223a completed May 15, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 p.m.