Triple

T3515545
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City of London School E74297 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Sir Ernest Debenham
Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
E369568 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 Ernest Debenham | Statement: [City of London School, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir Ernest Debenham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Ernest Debenham
Context triple: [City of London School, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir Ernest Debenham]
  • A. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir Charles William Somerset Marling
    Sir Charles William Somerset Marling is a British baronet and landowner best known as the father of singer-songwriter Laura Marling.
  • C. Sir John Hoddinott
    Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
  • D. Sir Evelyn Wood
    Sir Evelyn Wood was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient who held several high commands in the late 19th century, including leadership roles in colonial conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and Boer Wars.
  • E. Sir Charles Henry Knowles
    Sir Charles Henry Knowles was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral known for his service during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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 Ernest Debenham
Triple: [City of London School, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir Ernest Debenham]
Generated description
Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Ernest Debenham
Target entity description: Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
  • A. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir Charles William Somerset Marling
    Sir Charles William Somerset Marling is a British baronet and landowner best known as the father of singer-songwriter Laura Marling.
  • C. Sir John Hoddinott
    Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
  • D. Sir Evelyn Wood
    Sir Evelyn Wood was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient who held several high commands in the late 19th century, including leadership roles in colonial conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and Boer Wars.
  • E. Sir Charles Henry Knowles
    Sir Charles Henry Knowles was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral known for his service during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69ad85cfb5c881909c9a2edd9d6043cc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbc30362c81908ca7497a6a935cc6 completed March 8, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bb809d288190b4904b292fe9a627 completed March 13, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bc119aa081909f9c3d862871ed77 completed March 13, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f5a60fa08190acbb7257b515369a completed March 13, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.