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
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.
E1480263 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: 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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: Thomas Henry Bull Symons
Triple: [Thomas H. B. Symons, fullName, Thomas Henry Bull Symons]
Generated 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.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 (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_69e0b51d8a308190b09113b3b3f9bc15 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b06cbcb481909ec9014da3b0a18a completed April 22, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09ad69993881909b52927f7372fa0a completed May 17, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09ae3744588190877e88dd38a80ebd completed May 17, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09af2184808190b42b5073e90bd83d completed May 17, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:08 p.m.