Triple

T3589745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harrison E75996 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Brian Harrison (historian)
Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
E371704 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: Brian Harrison (historian) | Statement: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, Brian Harrison (historian)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Harrison (historian)
Context triple: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, Brian Harrison (historian)]
  • A. Hugh Trevor-Roper
    Hugh Trevor-Roper was a prominent 20th-century British historian and Oxford professor best known for his works on early modern Europe and Nazi Germany, including his influential study "The Last Days of Hitler."
  • B. Edward Hall
    Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
  • C. Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
  • D. Sir John H. Plumb
    Sir John H. Plumb was a prominent 20th-century British historian renowned for his influential works on 18th-century Britain and his role in shaping modern historical scholarship.
  • E. A. J. P. Taylor
    A. J. P. Taylor was a prominent 20th-century British historian and broadcaster, known for his influential and often controversial works on European and diplomatic history.
  • 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: Brian Harrison (historian)
Triple: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, Brian Harrison (historian)]
Generated description
Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Harrison (historian)
Target entity description: Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • A. Hugh Trevor-Roper
    Hugh Trevor-Roper was a prominent 20th-century British historian and Oxford professor best known for his works on early modern Europe and Nazi Germany, including his influential study "The Last Days of Hitler."
  • B. Edward Hall
    Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
  • C. Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
  • D. Sir John H. Plumb
    Sir John H. Plumb was a prominent 20th-century British historian renowned for his influential works on 18th-century Britain and his role in shaping modern historical scholarship.
  • E. A. J. P. Taylor
    A. J. P. Taylor was a prominent 20th-century British historian and broadcaster, known for his influential and often controversial works on European and diplomatic history.
  • 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_69ad85d8042081908af94a04c410dec0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc13c9514819096adf60b15016b8b completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b403085e9881908041a32f1dab43d1 completed March 13, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4041bc85c8190948b7e47aef0e0d0 completed March 13, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b40872099c81909bc3531bea77f875 completed March 13, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.