Triple

T277068
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbert Spencer E5272 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer
William George Spencer was an English schoolteacher and nonconformist educator whose progressive, scientific approach to teaching significantly shaped the philosophical development of his son, Herbert Spencer.
E36044 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: Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer | Statement: [Herbert Spencer, influencedBy, Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer
Context triple: [Herbert Spencer, influencedBy, Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer]
  • A. Charles Darwin (son of Erasmus Darwin, not the naturalist)
    Charles Darwin was the son of the physician, poet, and natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin and a member of the prominent Darwin family, distinct from his more famous naturalist grandson of the same name.
  • B. Herbert Spencer
    Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
  • C. Robert Darwin
    Robert Darwin was an English physician and financier best known as the father of naturalist Charles Darwin and a member of the prominent Darwin–Wedgwood family.
  • D. Henry Malthus
    Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
  • E. James Mill
    James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
  • 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: Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer
Triple: [Herbert Spencer, influencedBy, Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer]
Generated description
William George Spencer was an English schoolteacher and nonconformist educator whose progressive, scientific approach to teaching significantly shaped the philosophical development of his son, Herbert Spencer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Spencer's father, William George Spencer
Target entity description: William George Spencer was an English schoolteacher and nonconformist educator whose progressive, scientific approach to teaching significantly shaped the philosophical development of his son, Herbert Spencer.
  • A. Charles Darwin (son of Erasmus Darwin, not the naturalist)
    Charles Darwin was the son of the physician, poet, and natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin and a member of the prominent Darwin family, distinct from his more famous naturalist grandson of the same name.
  • B. Herbert Spencer
    Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
  • C. Robert Darwin
    Robert Darwin was an English physician and financier best known as the father of naturalist Charles Darwin and a member of the prominent Darwin–Wedgwood family.
  • D. Henry Malthus
    Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
  • E. James Mill
    James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
  • 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_69a257e6c8788190987dfe705ca2912a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25ded68c88190b1fc595ce329aeb9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a391525a7081909166884a8ea47ace completed March 1, 2026, 1:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a391e734148190a56e6a07447af304 completed March 1, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3924ca2148190811f9d376805d0cd completed March 1, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.