Triple

T21609342
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ward, Lock & Co. E533257 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Ebenezer Ward
Ebenezer Ward was a 19th-century British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing firm Ward, Lock & Co.
 E1493272 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: Ebenezer Ward | Statement: [Ward, Lock & Co., foundedBy, Ebenezer Ward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ebenezer Ward
Context triple: [Ward, Lock & Co., foundedBy, Ebenezer Ward]
  • A. R. D. Blackmore
    R. D. Blackmore was a 19th-century English novelist best known for his romantic historical novel "Lorna Doone."
  • B. Robert Southey
    Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
  • C. Edward Trelawny
    Edward Trelawny was an 18th-century British colonial governor of Jamaica known for his role in negotiating peace with the Maroons after years of conflict.
  • D. Charles Maturin
    Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
  • E. Spencer Gore
    Spencer Gore was a pioneering early 20th-century British painter associated with the Camden Town Group, known for his post-Impressionist landscapes and urban scenes.
  • 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: Ebenezer Ward
Triple: [Ward, Lock & Co., foundedBy, Ebenezer Ward]
Generated description
Ebenezer Ward was a 19th-century British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing firm Ward, Lock & Co.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ebenezer Ward
Target entity description: Ebenezer Ward was a 19th-century British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing firm Ward, Lock & Co.
  • A. R. D. Blackmore
    R. D. Blackmore was a 19th-century English novelist best known for his romantic historical novel "Lorna Doone."
  • B. Robert Southey
    Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
  • C. Edward Trelawny
    Edward Trelawny was an 18th-century British colonial governor of Jamaica known for his role in negotiating peace with the Maroons after years of conflict.
  • D. Charles Maturin
    Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
  • E. Spencer Gore
    Spencer Gore was a pioneering early 20th-century British painter associated with the Camden Town Group, known for his post-Impressionist landscapes and urban scenes.
  • 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_69e0c46411108190bba0d4176dffc9f3 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef17e7d1388190922a90cb91ec9fc4 completed April 27, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09fd3b13c881909eb8eee8ad8242be completed May 17, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09fe7380c881909d17d5ba64f0b19f completed May 17, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09fef4abe48190b6eac6d14aadd110 completed May 17, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:33 p.m.