Triple
T4066274
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomson |
E86329
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableBearer |
P458
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Thomson (journalist)
William Thomson (journalist) is a British journalist and writer known for his contributions to contemporary news and commentary.
|
E410487
|
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: William Thomson (journalist) | Statement: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, William Thomson (journalist)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomson (journalist) Context triple: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, William Thomson (journalist)]
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A.
John R. Thomson
John R. Thomson was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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B.
Sinclair Thomson
Sinclair Thomson is a historian known for his scholarship on Latin American history, particularly indigenous politics and social movements in Bolivia.
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C.
Henry Brougham
Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
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D.
George Newnes
George Newnes was a prominent British publisher and editor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for founding influential magazines such as The Strand Magazine, which popularized Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
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E.
Sir Henry Pottinger
Sir Henry Pottinger was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who became the first Governor of Hong Kong and played a key role in shaping early British-Chinese relations in the 19th century.
- 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: William Thomson (journalist) Triple: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, William Thomson (journalist)]
Generated description
William Thomson (journalist) is a British journalist and writer known for his contributions to contemporary news and commentary.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomson (journalist) Target entity description: William Thomson (journalist) is a British journalist and writer known for his contributions to contemporary news and commentary.
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A.
John R. Thomson
John R. Thomson was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
-
B.
Sinclair Thomson
Sinclair Thomson is a historian known for his scholarship on Latin American history, particularly indigenous politics and social movements in Bolivia.
-
C.
Henry Brougham
Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
-
D.
George Newnes
George Newnes was a prominent British publisher and editor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for founding influential magazines such as The Strand Magazine, which popularized Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
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E.
Sir Henry Pottinger
Sir Henry Pottinger was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who became the first Governor of Hong Kong and played a key role in shaping early British-Chinese relations in the 19th century.
- 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_69b562b17c888190ac4771f2bb4f0d58 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5637e72948190989169b0a46916a8 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:32 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b563fc4cb081908ba0f1a799338a8c |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.