Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Playfair E519269 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of the Scottish mathematician and physicist John Playfair, known for his work in geometry and for popularizing scientific ideas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E520969 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 | Statement: [John Playfair, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Playfair, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Cockcroft, a pioneering British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on nuclear physics and particle acceleration.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Williams Walker, an early 19th-century American politician and U.S. Senator from Alabama.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
  • E. John
    John Ross is a personal name shared by various notable individuals across history, including leaders, politicians, and public figures.
  • 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
Triple: [John Playfair, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of the Scottish mathematician and physicist John Playfair, known for his work in geometry and for popularizing scientific ideas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of the Scottish mathematician and physicist John Playfair, known for his work in geometry and for popularizing scientific ideas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. John chosen
    John is the given name of the Scottish mathematician and geologist John Playfair, known for his work on geometry and for popularizing James Hutton’s theories of geology.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Stuart Blackie, a 19th-century Scottish scholar and professor of Greek known for his writings and advocacy of Scottish culture and education reform.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Goodricke, an 18th-century English astronomer known for his pioneering work on variable stars.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Couch Adams, the 19th-century English mathematician and astronomer who co-predicted the existence and position of the planet Neptune.
  • 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_69e0b506e59c8190849b71ed07929215 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e702d77b8081908ecfb05ab391fd39 completed April 21, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09505fd1d0819098d8b390884e36db completed May 17, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09517954888190a2e20555afd95959 completed May 17, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a095204ba6c8190aff8dbb3b4b537d4 completed May 17, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.