Triple
T367221
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Opticks |
E7987
|
entity |
| Predicate | firstEditionPublisher |
P1760
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Benjamin Walford
Benjamin Walford was a London bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
|
E107292
|
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: Benjamin Walford | Statement: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Benjamin Walford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Walford Context triple: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Benjamin Walford]
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A.
Bartholomew Gedney
Bartholomew Gedney was a colonial Massachusetts magistrate best known for serving as one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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B.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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C.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
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D.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
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E.
Caspar Fleming
Caspar Fleming was the only son of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, whose early death deeply affected his parents' later lives.
- 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: Benjamin Walford Triple: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Benjamin Walford]
Generated description
Benjamin Walford was a London bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Walford Target entity description: Benjamin Walford was a London bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
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A.
Bartholomew Gedney
Bartholomew Gedney was a colonial Massachusetts magistrate best known for serving as one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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B.
Thomas Parkhurst
chosen
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
-
C.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
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D.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
-
E.
Caspar Fleming
Caspar Fleming was the only son of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, whose early death deeply affected his parents' later lives.
- F. None of above.
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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ebe92c7c8190b49af2b2b461eacc |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac4be4ead481909c618e2d2e795c08 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:01 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac4d59d6e48190ae584c5505d583e2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:07 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac4dc518cc8190a8eafd2eef7934d8 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:09 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.