Triple

T2924567
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Government Code and Cypher School E78811 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Max Newman
Max Newman was a British mathematician and codebreaker who played a key role in the development of early computing and in breaking German ciphers during World War II.
E316722 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: Max Newman | Statement: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Max Newman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Newman
Context triple: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Max Newman]
  • A. Maurice Wilkes
    Maurice Wilkes was a pioneering British computer scientist best known for building the EDSAC, one of the first practical stored-program computers, and for introducing microprogramming.
  • B. Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • C. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • E. James W. Mauchly
    James W. Mauchly is the son of computing pioneer John W. Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • 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: Max Newman
Triple: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Max Newman]
Generated description
Max Newman was a British mathematician and codebreaker who played a key role in the development of early computing and in breaking German ciphers during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Newman
Target entity description: Max Newman was a British mathematician and codebreaker who played a key role in the development of early computing and in breaking German ciphers during World War II.
  • A. Maurice Wilkes
    Maurice Wilkes was a pioneering British computer scientist best known for building the EDSAC, one of the first practical stored-program computers, and for introducing microprogramming.
  • B. Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • C. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • E. James W. Mauchly
    James W. Mauchly is the son of computing pioneer John W. Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • 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_69b108d249608190b386450c2ccab609 completed March 11, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b10ce809d48190810236535c3316ad completed March 11, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10d22bbd48190b9878b4b0421c004 completed March 11, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:55 p.m.