Triple

T209758
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lucasian Professor of Mathematics E4688 entity
Predicate hasHolder P1911 FINISHED
Object Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was a 19th-century English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer best known for designing early programmable computing machines such as the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
E26833 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: Charles Babbage | Statement: [Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, hasHolder, Charles Babbage]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Babbage
Context triple: [Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, hasHolder, Charles Babbage]
  • A. Alan Turing
    Alan Turing was a pioneering British mathematician and logician whose foundational work in computing and codebreaking established him as one of the principal founders of computer science and artificial intelligence.
  • B. Ada Lovelace
    Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician and writer widely regarded as the first computer programmer for her pioneering work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
  • C. George Boole
    George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
  • D. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • E. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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: Charles Babbage
Triple: [Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, hasHolder, Charles Babbage]
Generated description
Charles Babbage was a 19th-century English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer best known for designing early programmable computing machines such as the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Babbage
Target entity description: Charles Babbage was a 19th-century English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer best known for designing early programmable computing machines such as the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
  • A. Alan Turing
    Alan Turing was a pioneering British mathematician and logician whose foundational work in computing and codebreaking established him as one of the principal founders of computer science and artificial intelligence.
  • B. Ada Lovelace
    Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician and writer widely regarded as the first computer programmer for her pioneering work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
  • C. George Boole
    George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
  • D. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • E. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a260c178ac819085eb94ccaf64b780 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a332c9e99081909026bf5bfeb6c86c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a33326c71c81908c02320901915ce3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3338948808190b6fd60524c721fd5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.