Triple

T4151193
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Transport Commission E89907 entity
Predicate chairperson P377 FINISHED
Object Sir Cyril Hurcomb
Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
E419814 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: Sir Cyril Hurcomb | Statement: [British Transport Commission, chairperson, Sir Cyril Hurcomb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Cyril Hurcomb
Context triple: [British Transport Commission, chairperson, Sir Cyril Hurcomb]
  • A. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir Ernest Debenham
    Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
  • C. Sir John Woodroffe
    Sir John Woodroffe was a British Orientalist, jurist, and scholar best known for his influential English translations and interpretations of Hindu Tantric texts under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon.
  • D. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • E. Reginald Warneford
    Reginald Warneford was a British World War I aviator and Victoria Cross recipient renowned for being the first pilot to destroy a German Zeppelin in mid-air.
  • 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: Sir Cyril Hurcomb
Triple: [British Transport Commission, chairperson, Sir Cyril Hurcomb]
Generated description
Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Cyril Hurcomb
Target entity description: Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
  • A. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir Ernest Debenham
    Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
  • C. Sir John Woodroffe
    Sir John Woodroffe was a British Orientalist, jurist, and scholar best known for his influential English translations and interpretations of Hindu Tantric texts under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon.
  • D. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • E. Reginald Warneford
    Reginald Warneford was a British World War I aviator and Victoria Cross recipient renowned for being the first pilot to destroy a German Zeppelin in mid-air.
  • 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_69aed95a59a881909b26e70b42c6811a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0274f440819087dd58a9ce45cce5 completed March 9, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b589e73f1c8190ac1c09201c7844a8 completed March 14, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58b977eb88190ae56f4dedb7147e6 completed March 14, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58c18fa24819099f122b3a79d1065 completed March 14, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:44 p.m.