Triple

T22020848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butterworth E543841 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William John Butterworth
William John Butterworth was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Straits Settlements and played a key role in the region’s early development under British rule.
 E1517989 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: William John Butterworth | Statement: [Butterworth, hasNotableBearer, William John Butterworth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William John Butterworth
Context triple: [Butterworth, hasNotableBearer, William John Butterworth]
  • A. Arthur Butterworth
    Arthur Butterworth was an English composer and conductor known for his symphonies and brass band music in the 20th century.
  • B. Edward Blatchford
    Edward Blatchford is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television during the late 20th century, including a part in the 1992 historical epic "The Last of the Mohicans."
  • C. William Stroudley
    William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
  • D. William Bendelow
    William Bendelow is known primarily as the son of influential golf course architect Tom Bendelow.
  • E. Stephen Butterworth
    Stephen Butterworth is an actor known for his role in the 2013 horror film "Evil Dead."
  • 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: William John Butterworth
Triple: [Butterworth, hasNotableBearer, William John Butterworth]
Generated description
William John Butterworth was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Straits Settlements and played a key role in the region’s early development under British rule.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William John Butterworth
Target entity description: William John Butterworth was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Straits Settlements and played a key role in the region’s early development under British rule.
  • A. Arthur Butterworth
    Arthur Butterworth was an English composer and conductor known for his symphonies and brass band music in the 20th century.
  • B. Edward Blatchford
    Edward Blatchford is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television during the late 20th century, including a part in the 1992 historical epic "The Last of the Mohicans."
  • C. William Stroudley
    William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
  • D. William Bendelow
    William Bendelow is known primarily as the son of influential golf course architect Tom Bendelow.
  • E. Stephen Butterworth
    Stephen Butterworth is an actor known for his role in the 2013 horror film "Evil Dead."
  • 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_69e11e2e8ea4819084210fe06d3a1b8d completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f127c7b3308190ac056bef6f82722e completed April 28, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a878b5ea08190a7237565b486f277 completed May 18, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a895ef5288190a0390f96efd33d44 completed May 18, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a89c9c35081909c874c659d4a084f completed May 18, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:23 p.m.