Triple
T22839663
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bickford |
E566045
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableBearer |
P458
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Bickford |
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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: William Bickford | Statement: [Bickford, hasNotableBearer, William Bickford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bickford Context triple: [Bickford, hasNotableBearer, William Bickford]
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A.
John Bickford
John Bickford is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Bickford surname.
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B.
George Belfield
George Belfield is a British film and music video director known for helming visually distinctive videos for major artists, including Ed Sheeran’s “Castle on the Hill.”
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C.
Philip Spaulding
Philip Spaulding is a central fictional character on the soap opera "Guiding Light," known as a wealthy and often conflicted member of the influential Spaulding family.
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D.
Charles Whittlesey
Charles Whittlesey was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century hotel and railroad-related designs in the American West.
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E.
Thomas Ferebee
Thomas Ferebee was the U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima from the B-29 Enola Gay during World War II.
- 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 Bickford Target entity description: William Bickford was a 19th-century English inventor best known for creating the safety fuse used in mining and blasting.
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A.
John Bickford
John Bickford is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Bickford surname.
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B.
George Belfield
George Belfield is a British film and music video director known for helming visually distinctive videos for major artists, including Ed Sheeran’s “Castle on the Hill.”
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C.
Philip Spaulding
Philip Spaulding is a central fictional character on the soap opera "Guiding Light," known as a wealthy and often conflicted member of the influential Spaulding family.
-
D.
Charles Whittlesey
Charles Whittlesey was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century hotel and railroad-related designs in the American West.
-
E.
Thomas Ferebee
Thomas Ferebee was the U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima from the B-29 Enola Gay during World War II.
- 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_69e245869e188190a196584f36e682da |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f17e8325948190a3b63f2cd0371373 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:44 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:35 p.m.