Triple

T21889695
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merchant Taylors’ School, London E540505 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object John Walter (newspaper proprietor)
John Walter was an 18th-century British newspaper proprietor best known for founding The Times of London.
 E1507131 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 Walter (newspaper proprietor) | Statement: [Merchant Taylors’ School, London, hasAlumni, John Walter (newspaper proprietor)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Walter (newspaper proprietor)
Context triple: [Merchant Taylors’ School, London, hasAlumni, John Walter (newspaper proprietor)]
  • A. John Walter
    John Walter is a film editor best known for his work on Michael Moore’s documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story."
  • B. John Walter
    John Walter is a Canadian engineer and standards expert who served as president of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
  • C. John Walter
    John Walter was a prominent early Edmonton entrepreneur and community leader whose legacy includes having the Walterdale Bridge named in his honor.
  • D. Samuel Orchart Beeton
    Samuel Orchart Beeton was a 19th-century British publisher and editor best known for promoting and publishing his wife Mrs Beeton’s influential domestic and cookery works.
  • E. William Chambers (publisher)
    William Chambers was a 19th-century Scottish publisher, civic leader, and co-founder of the influential publishing firm W. & R. Chambers, known for educational and reference works.
  • 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 Walter (newspaper proprietor)
Triple: [Merchant Taylors’ School, London, hasAlumni, John Walter (newspaper proprietor)]
Generated description
John Walter was an 18th-century British newspaper proprietor best known for founding The Times of London.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Walter (newspaper proprietor)
Target entity description: John Walter was an 18th-century British newspaper proprietor best known for founding The Times of London.
  • A. John Walter
    John Walter is a film editor best known for his work on Michael Moore’s documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story."
  • B. John Walter
    John Walter is a Canadian engineer and standards expert who served as president of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
  • C. John Walter
    John Walter was a prominent early Edmonton entrepreneur and community leader whose legacy includes having the Walterdale Bridge named in his honor.
  • D. Samuel Orchart Beeton
    Samuel Orchart Beeton was a 19th-century British publisher and editor best known for promoting and publishing his wife Mrs Beeton’s influential domestic and cookery works.
  • E. William Chambers (publisher)
    William Chambers was a 19th-century Scottish publisher, civic leader, and co-founder of the influential publishing firm W. & R. Chambers, known for educational and reference works.
  • 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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f118ef2b648190bbd78f6b3958d2ee completed April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a52bd7064819082a40b8c41240880 completed May 17, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a56cc4d7081909d4d82acff2d787d completed May 18, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a5775bba4819083357b518589be41 completed May 18, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:06 p.m.