Triple

T2738402
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Telford Bridge E60686 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
E297928 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: Thomas Telford | Statement: [Telford Bridge, designer, Thomas Telford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Telford
Context triple: [Telford Bridge, designer, Thomas Telford]
  • A. James Brindley
    James Brindley was an 18th-century English engineer renowned for pioneering canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • B. John Rennie the Elder
    John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
  • C. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
  • D. John Rennie the Younger
    John Rennie the Younger was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for completing major projects such as London Bridge and continuing the work of his father, John Rennie the Elder.
  • E. Joseph Bazalgette
    Joseph Bazalgette was a 19th-century English civil engineer best known for designing London's revolutionary sewer system that helped eradicate cholera and modernize the city’s infrastructure.
  • 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: Thomas Telford
Triple: [Telford Bridge, designer, Thomas Telford]
Generated description
Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Telford
Target entity description: Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
  • A. James Brindley
    James Brindley was an 18th-century English engineer renowned for pioneering canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • B. John Rennie the Elder
    John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
  • C. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
  • D. John Rennie the Younger
    John Rennie the Younger was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for completing major projects such as London Bridge and continuing the work of his father, John Rennie the Elder.
  • E. Joseph Bazalgette
    Joseph Bazalgette was a 19th-century English civil engineer best known for designing London's revolutionary sewer system that helped eradicate cholera and modernize the city’s infrastructure.
  • 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_69ab4b77febc819095603eb012cd141b completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdb147a588190829b74fe05b3a114 completed March 7, 2026, 8 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc039a9988190a01036b15a19be6c completed March 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc188b76481909c6ccb49f49b1a26 completed March 10, 2026, 7 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc202466c81908c300520173837dc completed March 10, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.