Triple

T20633636
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nathan Clifford E507018 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Henry Clifford
William Henry Clifford was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford and a member of the prominent Clifford family in 19th-century American legal and political circles.
E1441620 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: William Henry Clifford | Statement: [Nathan Clifford, child, William Henry Clifford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Clifford
Context triple: [Nathan Clifford, child, William Henry Clifford]
  • A. William Kingdon Clifford
    William Kingdon Clifford was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher known for his work on geometric algebra and for the philosophical concept of "Clifford's principle" about the ethics of belief.
  • B. William Clifford
    William Clifford was an American silent film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his roles in numerous dramas and features of the era.
  • C. Sir William Rouse Ball
    Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
  • D. A. H. Sylvester
    A. H. Sylvester was an early 20th-century American topographer and explorer known for his pioneering survey and climbing work in the Sierra Nevada.
  • E. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • 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: William Henry Clifford
Triple: [Nathan Clifford, child, William Henry Clifford]
Generated description
William Henry Clifford was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford and a member of the prominent Clifford family in 19th-century American legal and political circles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Clifford
Target entity description: William Henry Clifford was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford and a member of the prominent Clifford family in 19th-century American legal and political circles.
  • A. William Kingdon Clifford
    William Kingdon Clifford was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher known for his work on geometric algebra and for the philosophical concept of "Clifford's principle" about the ethics of belief.
  • B. William Clifford
    William Clifford was an American silent film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his roles in numerous dramas and features of the era.
  • C. Sir William Rouse Ball
    Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
  • D. A. H. Sylvester
    A. H. Sylvester was an early 20th-century American topographer and explorer known for his pioneering survey and climbing work in the Sierra Nevada.
  • E. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • 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_69e0b4bd4a0081908d4e97a590a33fb2 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6ad0d808c81908a60abd02a22ed92 completed April 20, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08bb243c348190987b852c07744034 completed May 16, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08bdd076f08190a6663d891d503a29 completed May 16, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08be4eddbc8190b02a5b8b96ee6a29 completed May 16, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:42 a.m.