Triple

T21804242
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SIL International E538309 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Cameron Townsend — 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: William Cameron Townsend | Statement: [SIL International, foundedBy, William Cameron Townsend]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Cameron Townsend
Context triple: [SIL International, foundedBy, William Cameron Townsend]
  • A. Walter Russell Lambuth
    Walter Russell Lambuth was an American Methodist missionary and bishop known for his pioneering work in Christian education and church planting in Asia, including helping establish institutions such as Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan.
  • B. Paul K. Townsend
    Paul K. Townsend is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work on supergravity, p-branes, and M-theory in high-energy physics and string theory.
  • C. John Bedford Lloyd
    John Bedford Lloyd is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in films and television series, including appearances in major dramas and thrillers.
  • D. William Lindsay White
    William Lindsay White was an American journalist, author, and war correspondent known for his reporting during World War II and for continuing the editorial legacy of his father, William Allen White, at the Emporia Gazette.
  • E. Wilbur Ware
    Wilbur Ware was an influential American jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s with leading bebop and hard bop musicians.
  • 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: William Cameron Townsend
Target entity description: William Cameron Townsend was an American Christian missionary and linguist best known for pioneering Bible translation into indigenous languages and founding the organizations that became SIL International and Wycliffe Bible Translators.
  • A. Walter Russell Lambuth
    Walter Russell Lambuth was an American Methodist missionary and bishop known for his pioneering work in Christian education and church planting in Asia, including helping establish institutions such as Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan.
  • B. Paul K. Townsend
    Paul K. Townsend is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work on supergravity, p-branes, and M-theory in high-energy physics and string theory.
  • C. John Bedford Lloyd
    John Bedford Lloyd is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in films and television series, including appearances in major dramas and thrillers.
  • D. William Lindsay White
    William Lindsay White was an American journalist, author, and war correspondent known for his reporting during World War II and for continuing the editorial legacy of his father, William Allen White, at the Emporia Gazette.
  • E. Wilbur Ware
    Wilbur Ware was an influential American jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s with leading bebop and hard bop musicians.
  • 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_69e0c4733f4081909a86622e7e6d15d2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0780126e88190a93dd8d0519eb8fc completed April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.