Triple

T3074632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smeaton's Tower E64106 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object John Smeaton
John Smeaton was an 18th-century English civil engineer, often called the "father of civil engineering," renowned for pioneering work on lighthouses, canals, and harbors.
 E324899 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: John Smeaton | Statement: [Smeaton's Tower, architect, John Smeaton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Smeaton
Context triple: [Smeaton's Tower, architect, John Smeaton]
  • A. Thomas Telford
    Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
  • B. John Rennie the Elder
    John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
  • C. James Brindley
    James Brindley was an 18th-century English engineer renowned for pioneering canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
  • E. Marc Isambard Brunel
    Marc Isambard Brunel was a pioneering French-born British engineer best known for designing the Thames Tunnel and for his influential innovations in industrial engineering.
  • 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: John Smeaton
Triple: [Smeaton's Tower, architect, John Smeaton]
Generated description
John Smeaton was an 18th-century English civil engineer, often called the "father of civil engineering," renowned for pioneering work on lighthouses, canals, and harbors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Smeaton
Target entity description: John Smeaton was an 18th-century English civil engineer, often called the "father of civil engineering," renowned for pioneering work on lighthouses, canals, and harbors.
  • A. Thomas Telford
    Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
  • B. John Rennie the Elder
    John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
  • C. James Brindley
    James Brindley was an 18th-century English engineer renowned for pioneering canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
  • E. Marc Isambard Brunel
    Marc Isambard Brunel was a pioneering French-born British engineer best known for designing the Thames Tunnel and for his influential innovations in industrial engineering.
  • 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_69ad857a8aec8190bfdfd9c14554ac5a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada14f5ee0819097ae04b3163dd954 completed March 8, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f886785c8190b0765730405c69ef completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f92315948190aee670df21cc0e5e completed March 11, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f97563388190bd87d3ce9abe666e completed March 11, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.