Triple
T22168955
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Director of the British Museum |
E547867
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sir Edward Maunde Thompson |
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|
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: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson | Statement: [Director of the British Museum, positionHeldBy, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson Context triple: [Director of the British Museum, positionHeldBy, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson]
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A.
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
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B.
Sir Edmund Hirst
Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
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C.
Sir Denys Wilkinson
Sir Denys Wilkinson was a distinguished British nuclear physicist and academic leader known for his influential research in particle physics and his senior roles in UK higher education.
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D.
Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
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E.
Edwin Brothertoft
Edwin Brothertoft is a historical novel by American writer Theodore Winthrop, known for its vivid portrayal of Revolutionary-era America.
- 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: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson Target entity description: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson was a British palaeographer and scholar who became a leading authority on medieval manuscripts and served as a prominent cultural figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.
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A.
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
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B.
Sir Edmund Hirst
Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
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C.
Sir Denys Wilkinson
Sir Denys Wilkinson was a distinguished British nuclear physicist and academic leader known for his influential research in particle physics and his senior roles in UK higher education.
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D.
Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
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E.
Edwin Brothertoft
Edwin Brothertoft is a historical novel by American writer Theodore Winthrop, known for its vivid portrayal of Revolutionary-era America.
- 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_69e11e3c4c5c81908d336165816b12e0 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12a6721e8819081d732df2691f4a4 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:34 p.m.