Triple

T3459953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Institution of Civil Engineers E72999 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Telford E297928 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Telford | Statement: [Institution of Civil Engineers, foundedBy, Thomas Telford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Telford
Context triple: [Institution of Civil Engineers, foundedBy, Thomas Telford]
  • A. Thomas Telford chosen
    Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
  • B. 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.
  • C. James Brindley
    James Brindley was an 18th-century English engineer renowned for pioneering canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ad85b224d481908ff8be51338d24ff completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbae5ff848190880fa416a123bc4a completed March 8, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b361093d288190a023e8485265a989 completed March 13, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.