Triple

T4144897
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain E89358 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object John Darwin
John Darwin is a British historian and academic known for his influential work on the history of empires, particularly the British Empire and global imperialism.
 E425510 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: John Darwin | Statement: [Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, author, John Darwin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Darwin
Context triple: [Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, author, John Darwin]
  • A. John Darwin
    John Darwin is a British former teacher and prison officer who infamously faked his own death in a canoeing accident in 2002 as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
  • B. Ian Darwin
    Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
  • C. Geoffrey Simpson
    Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
  • D. Mark Darwin
    Mark Darwin is one of the two sons of British former teacher and convicted fraudster John Darwin, who became widely known due to his father's infamous "canoe man" disappearance and insurance scam.
  • E. Chris Darwin
    Chris Darwin is an Australian conservationist and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, known for his environmental advocacy and efforts to protect biodiversity.
  • 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: John Darwin
Triple: [Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, author, John Darwin]
Generated description
John Darwin is a British historian and academic known for his influential work on the history of empires, particularly the British Empire and global imperialism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Darwin
Target entity description: John Darwin is a British historian and academic known for his influential work on the history of empires, particularly the British Empire and global imperialism.
  • A. John Darwin
    John Darwin is a British former teacher and prison officer who infamously faked his own death in a canoeing accident in 2002 as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
  • B. Ian Darwin
    Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
  • C. Geoffrey Simpson
    Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
  • D. Mark Darwin
    Mark Darwin is one of the two sons of British former teacher and convicted fraudster John Darwin, who became widely known due to his father's infamous "canoe man" disappearance and insurance scam.
  • E. Chris Darwin
    Chris Darwin is an Australian conservationist and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, known for his environmental advocacy and efforts to protect biodiversity.
  • 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_69aed95785788190ae75bcf0cd1cafdf completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af025e850c819085ec05b9d9b60712 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b7628a4c81908990727003d8c247 completed March 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b820ba7481909fbe7685a353ef51 completed March 14, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b881c80081909af084ff4b43b01e completed March 14, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:43 p.m.