Triple
T21363832
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas H. B. Symons |
E526856
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Henry Bull Symons |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Thomas Henry Bull Symons | Statement: [Thomas H. B. Symons, fullName, Thomas Henry Bull Symons]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Henry Bull Symons Context triple: [Thomas H. B. Symons, fullName, Thomas Henry Bull Symons]
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A.
George James Symons
George James Symons was a pioneering 19th-century British meteorologist renowned for his extensive rainfall observations and contributions to systematic weather data collection.
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B.
William Stroudley
William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
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C.
George Walter Vincent Smith
George Walter Vincent Smith was a 19th-century American art collector and philanthropist whose extensive collections formed the basis of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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D.
Alfred Brumwell Thomas
Alfred Brumwell Thomas was a British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his grand civic buildings in the Edwardian Baroque style.
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E.
Arthur Augustus Edwin Hill
Arthur Augustus Edwin Hill was a British aristocrat and member of the Anglo-Irish Hill family associated with the Marquessate of Downshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Henry Bull Symons Target entity description: Thomas Henry Bull Symons was a Canadian academic and founding president of Trent University, known for his influential work on Canadian studies and higher education policy.
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A.
George James Symons
George James Symons was a pioneering 19th-century British meteorologist renowned for his extensive rainfall observations and contributions to systematic weather data collection.
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B.
William Stroudley
William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
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C.
George Walter Vincent Smith
George Walter Vincent Smith was a 19th-century American art collector and philanthropist whose extensive collections formed the basis of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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D.
Alfred Brumwell Thomas
Alfred Brumwell Thomas was a British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his grand civic buildings in the Edwardian Baroque style.
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E.
Arthur Augustus Edwin Hill
Arthur Augustus Edwin Hill was a British aristocrat and member of the Anglo-Irish Hill family associated with the Marquessate of Downshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e0b51d8a308190b09113b3b3f9bc15 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e8b06cbcb481909ec9014da3b0a18a |
completed | April 22, 2026, 11:26 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:08 p.m.