Triple

T3293957
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir John Fowler E69165 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of Sir John Fowler, a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for major railway and bridge projects such as the Forth Bridge.
E346349 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 | Statement: [Sir John Fowler, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [Sir John Fowler, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of J. Michael Bishop, the American immunologist and Nobel Prize–winning scientist known for his work on oncogenes.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
  • 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
Triple: [Sir John Fowler, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of Sir John Fowler, a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for major railway and bridge projects such as the Forth Bridge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of Sir John Fowler, a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for major railway and bridge projects such as the Forth Bridge.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Anderson, a British civil servant and politician who played a key role in government during the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century English art critic, social thinker, and writer.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Parker, a prominent British businessman and industrialist known for leading several major UK companies.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, a prominent 19th-century British statesman and Prime Minister.
  • 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_69ad859d45748190b0742408c954b39f completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb074f35081909dd3c8a09544b5f1 completed March 8, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2f3bb50b48190a1d2ea0dd71c039f completed March 12, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2f9db711c8190a6903ae530ead9ea completed March 12, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b312b273b48190a949e61b87722084 completed March 12, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.