Triple
T2924564
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Government Code and Cypher School |
E78811
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Gordon Welchman
Gordon Welchman was a British mathematician and pioneering codebreaker at Bletchley Park who played a crucial role in developing techniques to decrypt German Enigma communications during World War II.
|
E310469
|
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: Gordon Welchman | Statement: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Gordon Welchman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon Welchman Context triple: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Gordon Welchman]
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A.
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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B.
William Stephenson
William Stephenson was a Canadian-born spymaster and industrialist who played a key role in Allied intelligence operations during World War II and is often cited as an inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond.
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C.
Roy Fedden
Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
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.
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E.
Arthur Harris
Arthur Harris was a senior British air officer in World War II who led the Royal Air Force's strategic bombing campaign against Germany as head of Bomber Command.
- 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: Gordon Welchman Triple: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Gordon Welchman]
Generated description
Gordon Welchman was a British mathematician and pioneering codebreaker at Bletchley Park who played a crucial role in developing techniques to decrypt German Enigma communications during World War II.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon Welchman Target entity description: Gordon Welchman was a British mathematician and pioneering codebreaker at Bletchley Park who played a crucial role in developing techniques to decrypt German Enigma communications during World War II.
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A.
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.
-
B.
William Stephenson
William Stephenson was a Canadian-born spymaster and industrialist who played a key role in Allied intelligence operations during World War II and is often cited as an inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond.
-
C.
Roy Fedden
Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
Arthur Harris
Arthur Harris was a senior British air officer in World War II who led the Royal Air Force's strategic bombing campaign against Germany as head of Bomber Command.
- 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_69ad8b0d40b481908bc2a5fa2e73c3fb |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad97bf2df88190bd4f1e90d4656507 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b0563a81788190b94fab34e41a76e7 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b062a0f74c8190943739f4cda3c614 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:27 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b0631e65e88190bd425222c60637db |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:29 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:55 p.m.