Triple

T3203209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cotton Nero A.x E67098 entity
Predicate formerOwner P347 FINISHED
Object Sir Robert Cotton
Sir Robert Cotton was an English antiquarian and politician best known for founding the Cotton Library, one of the most important collections of medieval manuscripts in Britain.
E335136 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: Sir Robert Cotton | Statement: [Cotton Nero A.x, formerOwner, Sir Robert Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Robert Cotton
Context triple: [Cotton Nero A.x, formerOwner, Sir Robert Cotton]
  • A. Thomas Bodley
    Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar best known for refounding and endowing the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the early 17th century.
  • B. Sir William Holburne
    Sir William Holburne was a 19th-century British art collector and aristocrat whose extensive collection of fine and decorative arts formed the foundation of the Holburne Museum in Bath.
  • C. Sir John Woodward
    Sir John Woodward is a distinguished British geologist and academic leader known for his contributions to Earth sciences and higher education.
  • D. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • E. Henry Savile
    Henry Savile was an English scholar and classical translator best known for his role in the King James Bible translation and his work as Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
  • 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: Sir Robert Cotton
Triple: [Cotton Nero A.x, formerOwner, Sir Robert Cotton]
Generated description
Sir Robert Cotton was an English antiquarian and politician best known for founding the Cotton Library, one of the most important collections of medieval manuscripts in Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Robert Cotton
Target entity description: Sir Robert Cotton was an English antiquarian and politician best known for founding the Cotton Library, one of the most important collections of medieval manuscripts in Britain.
  • A. Thomas Bodley
    Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar best known for refounding and endowing the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the early 17th century.
  • B. Sir William Holburne
    Sir William Holburne was a 19th-century British art collector and aristocrat whose extensive collection of fine and decorative arts formed the foundation of the Holburne Museum in Bath.
  • C. Sir John Woodward
    Sir John Woodward is a distinguished British geologist and academic leader known for his contributions to Earth sciences and higher education.
  • D. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • E. Henry Savile
    Henry Savile was an English scholar and classical translator best known for his role in the King James Bible translation and his work as Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
  • 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_69ad8589bd988190afa7ed2bdffb7b33 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada9b188a88190b7b5e9b3be9410db completed March 8, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24bc7772c8190b286141dac5ea778 completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24ca05434819080ee515b1e7bdcb4 completed March 12, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24d19250c81908a9c3ac95b83a473 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.