Triple

T3900808
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Classification Research Group E90482 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
 E526145 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: Douglas J. Foskett | Statement: [Classification Research Group, member, Douglas J. Foskett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas J. Foskett
Context triple: [Classification Research Group, member, Douglas J. Foskett]
  • A. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • B. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frederick W. Lander
    Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
  • D. Richard H. Garrett
    Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
  • E. Daniel L. Fapp
    Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
  • 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: Douglas J. Foskett
Triple: [Classification Research Group, member, Douglas J. Foskett]
Generated description
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas J. Foskett
Target entity description: Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • A. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • B. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frederick W. Lander
    Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
  • D. Richard H. Garrett
    Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
  • E. Daniel L. Fapp
    Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
  • 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_69aed95d315881908cbf1bf4a7215fbf completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeecf2f230819099abc109a0b7d916 completed March 9, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bfaf26c0e481909f54973d30da3ef4 completed March 22, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bfafef20008190889d9f90a91314b9 completed March 22, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bfb037ea9c819094e14419ec060018 completed March 22, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:21 p.m.