Triple

T4083893
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lithgow E87541 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Lithgow
William Lithgow was a Scottish traveler and author of the early 17th century, best known for his extensive journeys across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, which he documented in vivid travel narratives.
E411683 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 Lithgow | Statement: [Lithgow, namedAfter, William Lithgow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lithgow
Context triple: [Lithgow, namedAfter, William Lithgow]
  • A. Samuel Harsnett
    Samuel Harsnett was a 16th–17th century English clergyman and scholar who became Archbishop of York and was known for his writings against exorcism and Puritanism.
  • B. Margery Latimer
    Margery Latimer was an American modernist writer and feminist known for her experimental fiction and her brief, controversial marriage to Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer.
  • C. Giles Corey
    Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Samuel Rutherford
    Samuel Rutherford was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and political thinker best known for his influential work on church-state relations and his role in the Covenanter movement.
  • E. John Foxe
    John Foxe was a 16th-century English historian and martyrologist best known for his influential work "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," which documented the persecution of Protestants.
  • 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 Lithgow
Triple: [Lithgow, namedAfter, William Lithgow]
Generated description
William Lithgow was a Scottish traveler and author of the early 17th century, best known for his extensive journeys across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, which he documented in vivid travel narratives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lithgow
Target entity description: William Lithgow was a Scottish traveler and author of the early 17th century, best known for his extensive journeys across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, which he documented in vivid travel narratives.
  • A. Samuel Harsnett
    Samuel Harsnett was a 16th–17th century English clergyman and scholar who became Archbishop of York and was known for his writings against exorcism and Puritanism.
  • B. Margery Latimer
    Margery Latimer was an American modernist writer and feminist known for her experimental fiction and her brief, controversial marriage to Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer.
  • C. Giles Corey
    Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Samuel Rutherford
    Samuel Rutherford was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and political thinker best known for his influential work on church-state relations and his role in the Covenanter movement.
  • E. John Foxe
    John Foxe was a 16th-century English historian and martyrologist best known for his influential work "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," which documented the persecution of Protestants.
  • 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_69aed9435cf48190ad1da737c962d19d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefc7a4b488190ab466e2c50329ab3 completed March 9, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b562c9760c8190a9292eb1cea55ab2 completed March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b563b5cc108190bb9684abafa608af completed March 14, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5646606f08190930451ac372154cd completed March 14, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.