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]
  • 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.
  • B. Thomas Parkhurst
    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.
  • 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. 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.