Triple

T20075151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The World’s Hydrographical Description E499842 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object John Davis
John Davis was an English navigator and explorer of the late 16th century, best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage and his influential navigational writings.
E116688 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: John Davis | Statement: [The World’s Hydrographical Description, author, John Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Davis
Context triple: [The World’s Hydrographical Description, author, John Davis]
  • A. John Davis
    John Davis is a prominent American film and television producer known for founding Davis Entertainment and producing numerous major studio movies and series.
  • B. John Davis
    John Davis was a British special operations officer who served with the World War II clandestine unit Force 136, conducting covert missions in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia.
  • C. John Davis
    John Davis is an Australian climber best known for leading the first successful ascent of the remote sea stack Ball's Pyramid in 1965.
  • D. John Davis
    John Davis was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • E. John Davis
    John Davis was the husband of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, the pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
  • 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: John Davis
Triple: [The World’s Hydrographical Description, author, John Davis]
Generated description
John Davis was an English navigator and explorer of the late 16th century, best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage and his influential navigational writings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Davis
Target entity description: John Davis was an English navigator and explorer of the late 16th century, best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage and his influential navigational writings.
  • A. John Davis chosen
    John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • B. John Davis
    John Davis is an Australian climber best known for leading the first successful ascent of the remote sea stack Ball's Pyramid in 1965.
  • C. John Davis
    John Davis was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • D. John Davis
    John Davis was a British special operations officer who served with the World War II clandestine unit Force 136, conducting covert missions in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia.
  • E. John Davis
    John Davis is a prominent American film and television producer known for founding Davis Entertainment and producing numerous major studio movies and series.
  • F. None of above.

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_69da627770948190997f486f9a2e370f completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6643ab0448190ab18d013b72aaf32 completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a083c655c7c8190b570b793935949dd completed May 16, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a083d5360cc8190b5c3e2df33b6ef2b completed May 16, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a083dce8b8881908c26f6fe5ba8a8cc completed May 16, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:40 p.m.