Triple

T23193628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walcher, Bishop of Durham E579814 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object William de St-Calais
William de St-Calais was an influential Norman churchman and statesman who served as Bishop of Durham under William II of England, playing a key role in both ecclesiastical reform and royal administration.
E1573454 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 de St-Calais | Statement: [Walcher, Bishop of Durham, successor, William de St-Calais]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William de St-Calais
Context triple: [Walcher, Bishop of Durham, successor, William de St-Calais]
  • A. Geoffrey de Geneville
    Geoffrey de Geneville was a 13th-century Anglo-French nobleman and royal official who held extensive lands in Ireland and the Welsh Marches and played a prominent role in the service of the English crown.
  • B. William de Corbeil
    William de Corbeil was a 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury known for his role in English church politics and his involvement in the coronation of King Stephen.
  • C. William de Valognes
    William de Valognes was a medieval Scottish noble and royal official known for his role in the administration of the Scottish kingdom and his patronage of religious institutions.
  • D. William de Verdun
    William de Verdun was a medieval English nobleman of the Verdun family, known primarily as a younger son of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun.
  • E. William d’Aubigny Pincerna
    William d’Aubigny Pincerna was a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal butler under King Henry I of England, known as the progenitor of an influential aristocratic family.
  • 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 de St-Calais
Triple: [Walcher, Bishop of Durham, successor, William de St-Calais]
Generated description
William de St-Calais was an influential Norman churchman and statesman who served as Bishop of Durham under William II of England, playing a key role in both ecclesiastical reform and royal administration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William de St-Calais
Target entity description: William de St-Calais was an influential Norman churchman and statesman who served as Bishop of Durham under William II of England, playing a key role in both ecclesiastical reform and royal administration.
  • A. Geoffrey de Geneville
    Geoffrey de Geneville was a 13th-century Anglo-French nobleman and royal official who held extensive lands in Ireland and the Welsh Marches and played a prominent role in the service of the English crown.
  • B. William de Corbeil
    William de Corbeil was a 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury known for his role in English church politics and his involvement in the coronation of King Stephen.
  • C. William de Valognes
    William de Valognes was a medieval Scottish noble and royal official known for his role in the administration of the Scottish kingdom and his patronage of religious institutions.
  • D. William de Verdun
    William de Verdun was a medieval English nobleman of the Verdun family, known primarily as a younger son of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun.
  • E. William d’Aubigny Pincerna
    William d’Aubigny Pincerna was a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal butler under King Henry I of England, known as the progenitor of an influential aristocratic family.
  • 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_69e24600eed08190bd7e5295653a1503 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18fd971d08190a132d24094e0c37b completed April 29, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30bcb5d4819088b89ef3aa187791 completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c3283a77081908369f2b8cb78c781 completed May 19, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c331f08248190a6fa671734fca280 completed May 19, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:06 p.m.