Triple

T2850659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Bath E63082 entity
Predicate hasViceChancellor P142 FINISHED
Object Ian H. White
Ian H. White is a British engineer and academic leader who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bath.
 E303094 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: Ian H. White | Statement: [University of Bath, hasViceChancellor, Ian H. White]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ian H. White
Context triple: [University of Bath, hasViceChancellor, Ian H. White]
  • A. David S. Ward
    David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
  • B. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • C. Robert Whitman
    Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
  • D. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • E. Gareth H. McKinley
    Gareth H. McKinley is a prominent mechanical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research on complex fluids and non-Newtonian flow behavior.
  • 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: Ian H. White
Triple: [University of Bath, hasViceChancellor, Ian H. White]
Generated description
Ian H. White is a British engineer and academic leader who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bath.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ian H. White
Target entity description: Ian H. White is a British engineer and academic leader who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bath.
  • A. David S. Ward
    David S. Ward is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and other popular movies.
  • B. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • C. Robert Whitman
    Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
  • D. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • E. Gareth H. McKinley
    Gareth H. McKinley is a prominent mechanical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research on complex fluids and non-Newtonian flow behavior.
  • 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_69ab4c407c408190857d25e027155ce9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf437328819098506ec8a3a23e11 completed March 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afe8e23694819089b38a10e1bc2f03 completed March 10, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afea2358b88190a91ef389f5a98cea completed March 10, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0035854e88190a8750b3291aa41c4 completed March 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.