Triple

T4382765
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ferranti Mark I E99166 entity
Predicate notablePersonAssociated P7128 FINISHED
Object Tom Kilburn
Tom Kilburn was a British computer scientist and engineer who played a pioneering role in the development of early stored-program computers, including the Manchester Baby and its commercial successor, the Ferranti Mark I.
E436457 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: Tom Kilburn | Statement: [Ferranti Mark I, notablePersonAssociated, Tom Kilburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Kilburn
Context triple: [Ferranti Mark I, notablePersonAssociated, Tom Kilburn]
  • A. John Brabourne
    John Brabourne was a British film and television producer, known for his adaptations of classic literature and for being the son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten.
  • B. Ian Stokell
    Ian Stokell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2022 film adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front."
  • C. Cyril Hume
    Cyril Hume was an American screenwriter best known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s, including several notable science fiction and adventure movies.
  • D. Bill Foulkes
    Bill Foulkes was an English footballer best known as a long-serving, tough-tackling defender for Manchester United and a key figure in the club’s post-war and Busby Babes eras.
  • E. Lionel Birch
    Lionel Birch was the husband of renowned Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath.
  • 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: Tom Kilburn
Triple: [Ferranti Mark I, notablePersonAssociated, Tom Kilburn]
Generated description
Tom Kilburn was a British computer scientist and engineer who played a pioneering role in the development of early stored-program computers, including the Manchester Baby and its commercial successor, the Ferranti Mark I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Kilburn
Target entity description: Tom Kilburn was a British computer scientist and engineer who played a pioneering role in the development of early stored-program computers, including the Manchester Baby and its commercial successor, the Ferranti Mark I.
  • A. John Brabourne
    John Brabourne was a British film and television producer, known for his adaptations of classic literature and for being the son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten.
  • B. Ian Stokell
    Ian Stokell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2022 film adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front."
  • C. Cyril Hume
    Cyril Hume was an American screenwriter best known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s, including several notable science fiction and adventure movies.
  • D. Bill Foulkes
    Bill Foulkes was an English footballer best known as a long-serving, tough-tackling defender for Manchester United and a key figure in the club’s post-war and Busby Babes eras.
  • E. Lionel Birch
    Lionel Birch was the husband of renowned Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath.
  • 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_69b3454ea8f48190a49c2436624d6ef6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35262649c8190a724c9835cb7ece6 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e523cc5c8190b9884f83d433982c completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5eeaf35348190a1611f5b04baed1f completed March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ef5c7e0c819080b0e8914dcd6568 completed March 14, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:18 p.m.