Triple

T19587794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject African Association E470147 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Walter Oudney
Walter Oudney was a Scottish physician and explorer best known for his early 19th-century expeditions into the central Sahara and Central Africa in search of the course of the Niger River.
E1386358 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: Walter Oudney | Statement: [African Association, notableMember, Walter Oudney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Oudney
Context triple: [African Association, notableMember, Walter Oudney]
  • A. Edwin Holgate
    Edwin Holgate was a Canadian painter and printmaker associated with the Group of Seven, known for his landscapes and distinctive figure studies that helped shape early 20th-century Canadian art.
  • B. Walter Bidlake
    Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
  • C. Ernest Marples
    Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
  • D. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • E. Harold Tennant
    Harold Tennant was a British Liberal politician and government minister in the early 20th century, associated with the administration of H. H. Asquith.
  • 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: Walter Oudney
Triple: [African Association, notableMember, Walter Oudney]
Generated description
Walter Oudney was a Scottish physician and explorer best known for his early 19th-century expeditions into the central Sahara and Central Africa in search of the course of the Niger River.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Oudney
Target entity description: Walter Oudney was a Scottish physician and explorer best known for his early 19th-century expeditions into the central Sahara and Central Africa in search of the course of the Niger River.
  • A. Edwin Holgate
    Edwin Holgate was a Canadian painter and printmaker associated with the Group of Seven, known for his landscapes and distinctive figure studies that helped shape early 20th-century Canadian art.
  • B. Walter Bidlake
    Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
  • C. Ernest Marples
    Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
  • D. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • E. Harold Tennant
    Harold Tennant was a British Liberal politician and government minister in the early 20th century, associated with the administration of H. H. Asquith.
  • 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_69d8e510024481908415c0d616fa6186 completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e64052f61c81908bb49927d4246030 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0771a99edc8190b2ba4fad279109eb completed May 15, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0772ef5f64819096d850a4a2347cd4 completed May 15, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0773543aa881909cf03e024387a595 completed May 15, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:43 p.m.