Triple

T21158849
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Noble E521381 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object David F. Noble
David F. Noble was a Canadian historian of technology known for his critical analyses of industrial capitalism, automation, and the social impacts of technological development.
 E1468567 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: David F. Noble | Statement: [Noble, hasNotableBearer, David F. Noble]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David F. Noble
Context triple: [Noble, hasNotableBearer, David F. Noble]
  • A. Thomas J. R. Hughes
    Thomas J. R. Hughes is a prominent American applied mathematician and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
  • B. David Noble
    David Noble is an Australian park ranger and botanist best known for discovering the rare and ancient Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) in 1994.
  • C. Paul Saffo
    Paul Saffo is a technology forecaster and futurist known for his work on long-term trends in science, technology, and society.
  • D. David Gategno
    David Gategno is a French songwriter and composer known for creating pop songs for various Francophone artists.
  • E. Philip Resnick
    Philip Resnick is a Canadian political scientist and poet known for his work on nationalism, federalism, and Canadian political thought.
  • 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: David F. Noble
Triple: [Noble, hasNotableBearer, David F. Noble]
Generated description
David F. Noble was a Canadian historian of technology known for his critical analyses of industrial capitalism, automation, and the social impacts of technological development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David F. Noble
Target entity description: David F. Noble was a Canadian historian of technology known for his critical analyses of industrial capitalism, automation, and the social impacts of technological development.
  • A. Thomas J. R. Hughes
    Thomas J. R. Hughes is a prominent American applied mathematician and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
  • B. David Noble
    David Noble is an Australian park ranger and botanist best known for discovering the rare and ancient Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) in 1994.
  • C. Paul Saffo
    Paul Saffo is a technology forecaster and futurist known for his work on long-term trends in science, technology, and society.
  • D. David Gategno
    David Gategno is a French songwriter and composer known for creating pop songs for various Francophone artists.
  • E. Philip Resnick
    Philip Resnick is a Canadian political scientist and poet known for his work on nationalism, federalism, and Canadian political thought.
  • 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_69e0b50d1ea481909c07e63c3ead9316 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7252e9ef481908f4904c535f3da8b completed April 21, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a096dce16e08190bbf4d690b642822e completed May 17, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a096e90901081909f96dcf0a7acb6cd completed May 17, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096f0ce3bc8190a5a82d718a898e13 completed May 17, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:59 p.m.