Triple

T21686178
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford E535234 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, art collector, and patron known as the “Collector Earl” for assembling one of the greatest art and antiquities collections of his time.
E1496826 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 Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel | Statement: [William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, father, Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
Context triple: [William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, father, Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel]
  • A. Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel
    Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, art collector, and patron of the arts whose extensive collections greatly influenced the development of art and culture in England.
  • B. Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel
    Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician from the prominent Howard family, who held one of England’s oldest earldoms and sat in the House of Commons before inheriting his title.
  • C. Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel
    Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel, is a British aristocrat and heir apparent to the Dukedom of Norfolk, the premier dukedom in the peerage of England.
  • D. Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel
    Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent English nobleman and Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I, later canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
  • E. Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
    Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent English nobleman and Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I, executed for his faith and later canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
  • 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 Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
Triple: [William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, father, Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel]
Generated description
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, art collector, and patron known as the “Collector Earl” for assembling one of the greatest art and antiquities collections of his time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
Target entity description: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, art collector, and patron known as the “Collector Earl” for assembling one of the greatest art and antiquities collections of his time.
  • A. Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel
    Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, art collector, and patron of the arts whose extensive collections greatly influenced the development of art and culture in England.
  • B. Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel
    Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician from the prominent Howard family, who held one of England’s oldest earldoms and sat in the House of Commons before inheriting his title.
  • C. Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel
    Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel, is a British aristocrat and heir apparent to the Dukedom of Norfolk, the premier dukedom in the peerage of England.
  • D. Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel
    Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent English nobleman and Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I, later canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
  • E. Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
    Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent English nobleman and Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I, executed for his faith and later canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
  • 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_69e0c469b6ec8190aee4cadd1527db91 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef96cb69f081908ed0c7ebea429898 completed April 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a1e20fc348190899995c0988d9cc5 completed May 17, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a1ef23b6c8190a0194719c34bb971 completed May 17, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a1fc13900819098ee66684dfdff95 completed May 17, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:44 p.m.