Triple
T2885632
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Mission to the Manhattan Project |
E59497
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableMember |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Penney
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
|
E306791
|
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 Penney | Statement: [British Mission to the Manhattan Project, notableMember, William Penney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Penney Context triple: [British Mission to the Manhattan Project, notableMember, William Penney]
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A.
Sir John Wheeler
Sir John Wheeler is a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles, notably in the Northern Ireland Office.
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B.
Henry Tizard
Henry Tizard was a British chemist, aviation and radar pioneer, and influential government scientific adviser who played a key role in shaping the United Kingdom’s early World War II research and defense technology strategy.
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C.
Sir John Kingman
Sir John Kingman is a prominent British mathematician and statistician renowned for his foundational work in probability theory, including the development of Kingman’s coalescent.
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D.
Peter Wooldridge Townsend
Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer and World War II flying ace best known for his postwar role as equerry to King George VI and his romantic relationship with Princess Margaret.
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E.
Lord Rutherford
Lord Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist whose work on atomic structure and radioactivity earned him the title "father of nuclear physics."
- 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 Penney Triple: [British Mission to the Manhattan Project, notableMember, William Penney]
Generated description
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Penney Target entity description: William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
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A.
Sir John Wheeler
Sir John Wheeler is a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles, notably in the Northern Ireland Office.
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B.
Henry Tizard
Henry Tizard was a British chemist, aviation and radar pioneer, and influential government scientific adviser who played a key role in shaping the United Kingdom’s early World War II research and defense technology strategy.
-
C.
Sir John Kingman
Sir John Kingman is a prominent British mathematician and statistician renowned for his foundational work in probability theory, including the development of Kingman’s coalescent.
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D.
Peter Wooldridge Townsend
Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer and World War II flying ace best known for his postwar role as equerry to King George VI and his romantic relationship with Princess Margaret.
-
E.
Lord Rutherford
Lord Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist whose work on atomic structure and radioactivity earned him the title "father of nuclear physics."
- 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_69ab4ac739188190a112f42a5a69c951 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abe04476588190b0db0880e14c79b5 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b031713e14819098db4cfaaea74f73 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 2:57 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b0332021048190a846847e17ccf6f2 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 3:05 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b0340e559081909e06d5383eca3019 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 3:09 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.