Triple

T2168254
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Severn Tunnel E46960 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object John Hawkshaw
John Hawkshaw was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for major railway and tunnel projects, including the Severn Tunnel.
E69165 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 Hawkshaw | Statement: [Severn Tunnel, designer, John Hawkshaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hawkshaw
Context triple: [Severn Tunnel, designer, John Hawkshaw]
  • A. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Richard Upjohn
    Richard Upjohn was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for popularizing the Gothic Revival style in the United States.
  • C. Lewis Cubitt
    Lewis Cubitt was a 19th-century English architect best known for designing major London railway termini and related infrastructure.
  • D. Sir John Fowler
    Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
  • E. Gilbert Wakefield
    Gilbert Wakefield was an 18th-century English scholar, classical critic, and controversial theologian known for his radical political views and biblical scholarship.
  • 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 Hawkshaw
Triple: [Severn Tunnel, designer, John Hawkshaw]
Generated description
John Hawkshaw was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for major railway and tunnel projects, including the Severn Tunnel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hawkshaw
Target entity description: John Hawkshaw was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for major railway and tunnel projects, including the Severn Tunnel.
  • A. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Richard Upjohn
    Richard Upjohn was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for popularizing the Gothic Revival style in the United States.
  • C. Lewis Cubitt
    Lewis Cubitt was a 19th-century English architect best known for designing major London railway termini and related infrastructure.
  • D. Sir John Fowler chosen
    Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
  • E. Gilbert Wakefield
    Gilbert Wakefield was an 18th-century English scholar, classical critic, and controversial theologian known for his radical political views and biblical scholarship.
  • 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_69a88a184cbc8190877791f6552c2484 completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbeadaed481908d6afa942d7155b8 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae653b6ae48190ab5c7e6bf2dcfa6f completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae66411d848190a529018ad3765597 completed March 9, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae66a751f881908fda164de72dac9b completed March 9, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.