Triple

T4066273
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomson E86329 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James Thomson (engineer)
James Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist known for his work on thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and the theory of tides, and as the elder brother of Lord Kelvin.
 E412132 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: James Thomson (engineer) | Statement: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, James Thomson (engineer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Thomson (engineer)
Context triple: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, James Thomson (engineer)]
  • A. Robert Thomson (inventor)
    Robert Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish inventor best known for pioneering the development of the pneumatic tyre for road vehicles.
  • B. Walter Watt
    Walter Watt is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Muskegon Heights, Michigan.
  • C. Alexander Thomson (architect)
    Alexander Thomson (architect) was a 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for his distinctive Glasgow buildings that fused classical forms with innovative structural design, earning him the nickname "Greek Thomson."
  • D. Henry Bell
    Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer and pioneer of steamship navigation, best known for operating one of Europe's first successful passenger steamboats in the early 19th century.
  • E. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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: James Thomson (engineer)
Triple: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, James Thomson (engineer)]
Generated description
James Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist known for his work on thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and the theory of tides, and as the elder brother of Lord Kelvin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Thomson (engineer)
Target entity description: James Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist known for his work on thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and the theory of tides, and as the elder brother of Lord Kelvin.
  • A. Robert Thomson (inventor)
    Robert Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish inventor best known for pioneering the development of the pneumatic tyre for road vehicles.
  • B. Walter Watt
    Walter Watt is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Muskegon Heights, Michigan.
  • C. Alexander Thomson (architect)
    Alexander Thomson (architect) was a 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for his distinctive Glasgow buildings that fused classical forms with innovative structural design, earning him the nickname "Greek Thomson."
  • D. Henry Bell
    Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer and pioneer of steamship navigation, best known for operating one of Europe's first successful passenger steamboats in the early 19th century.
  • E. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefbf58d9c8190936e453b0d397cb0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b55b5388190a90551c43388f3fc completed March 14, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56bdcfa94819096df212e6e99937e completed March 14, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56c5e73e88190896176180a9e58cd completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.