Triple

T2970331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject RMS Titanic E80262 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews was a British shipbuilder and naval architect best known as the chief designer of the RMS Titanic, who perished during its sinking in 1912.
E314294 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: Thomas Andrews | Statement: [RMS Titanic, designer, Thomas Andrews]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Andrews
Context triple: [RMS Titanic, designer, Thomas Andrews]
  • A. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • B. George Cowan
    George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • C. Walter Watt
    Walter Watt is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Muskegon Heights, Michigan.
  • D. William Henry Dudley Boyle
    William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and 12th Earl of Orrery, was a British peer and Royal Navy officer who served as a senior admiral during the First World War.
  • E. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • 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: Thomas Andrews
Triple: [RMS Titanic, designer, Thomas Andrews]
Generated description
Thomas Andrews was a British shipbuilder and naval architect best known as the chief designer of the RMS Titanic, who perished during its sinking in 1912.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Andrews
Target entity description: Thomas Andrews was a British shipbuilder and naval architect best known as the chief designer of the RMS Titanic, who perished during its sinking in 1912.
  • A. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • B. George Cowan
    George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • C. Walter Watt
    Walter Watt is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Muskegon Heights, Michigan.
  • D. William Henry Dudley Boyle
    William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and 12th Earl of Orrery, was a British peer and Royal Navy officer who served as a senior admiral during the First World War.
  • E. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • 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_69ad8b14ffe881908ffed62f9595c867 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad997282b481909d078be0e70d9930 completed March 8, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0fca6491c81909edaf6f495f17761 completed March 11, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1006c3ee48190b17b8216a8b700c9 completed March 11, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b100dd4f108190b39926534096d6c7 completed March 11, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.