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)]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.