Triple

T21792170
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Ashby E537996 entity
Predicate describedBySource P519 FINISHED
Object user-provided description: "Thomas Ashby was a British archaeologist and topographer renowned for his pioneering studies of Roman topography and leadership in early 20th-century classical scholarship." 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: user-provided description: "Thomas Ashby was a British archaeologist and topographer renowned for his pioneering studies of Roman topography and leadership in early 20th-century classical scholarship." | Statement: [Thomas Ashby, describedBySource, user-provided description: "Thomas Ashby was a British archaeologist and topographer renowned for his pioneering studies of Roman topography and leadership in early 20th-century classical scholarship."]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: user-provided description: "Thomas Ashby was a British archaeologist and topographer renowned for his pioneering studies of Roman topography and leadership in early 20th-century classical scholarship."
Context triple: [Thomas Ashby, describedBySource, user-provided description: "Thomas Ashby was a British archaeologist and topographer renowned for his pioneering studies of Roman topography and leadership in early 20th-century classical scholarship."]
  • A. Ian Glover (archaeologist)
    Ian Glover is a British archaeologist renowned for his pioneering research on the prehistory and early historic cultures of Southeast Asia.
  • B. Sir John Boardman
    Sir John Boardman is a distinguished British classical art historian and archaeologist renowned for his scholarship on ancient Greek sculpture, pottery, and iconography.
  • C. John North (academic)
    John North was a British historian of science and mathematics known for his influential works on medieval cosmology, astronomy, and the cultural history of scientific ideas.
  • D. Peter Rawlinson
    Peter Rawlinson is a British engineer and executive best known as the CEO and CTO of Lucid Motors and former chief engineer of the Tesla Model S.
  • E. Barry Kemp
    Barry Kemp is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing popular sitcoms such as "Newhart" and "Coach."
  • 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: user-provided description: "Thomas Ashby was a British archaeologist and topographer renowned for his pioneering studies of Roman topography and leadership in early 20th-century classical scholarship."
Target entity description: Thomas Ashby was a prominent early 20th-century British archaeologist and topographer noted for his influential work on the topography of ancient Rome and his leading role in classical studies.
  • A. Ian Glover (archaeologist)
    Ian Glover is a British archaeologist renowned for his pioneering research on the prehistory and early historic cultures of Southeast Asia.
  • B. Sir John Boardman
    Sir John Boardman is a distinguished British classical art historian and archaeologist renowned for his scholarship on ancient Greek sculpture, pottery, and iconography.
  • C. John North (academic)
    John North was a British historian of science and mathematics known for his influential works on medieval cosmology, astronomy, and the cultural history of scientific ideas.
  • D. Peter Rawlinson
    Peter Rawlinson is a British engineer and executive best known as the CEO and CTO of Lucid Motors and former chief engineer of the Tesla Model S.
  • E. Barry Kemp
    Barry Kemp is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and producing popular sitcoms such as "Newhart" and "Coach."
  • 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_69e0c47198f881908cb0d237266c10e9 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f06220bbe0819091cf3b41aa788cc3 completed April 28, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:52 p.m.