Triple

T4532913
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Somerville E106338 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William Somerville
William Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish physician and army medical officer best known as the husband and supporter of pioneering mathematician and science writer Mary Somerville.
E453107 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 Somerville | Statement: [Mary Somerville, spouse, William Somerville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Somerville
Context triple: [Mary Somerville, spouse, William Somerville]
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. William John Cunningham
    William John Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his success with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
  • C. John Brotherton
    John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
  • D. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • E. Charles Ramsay
    Charles Ramsay is known primarily as the son of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the World War II naval commander who helped orchestrate the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings.
  • 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 Somerville
Triple: [Mary Somerville, spouse, William Somerville]
Generated description
William Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish physician and army medical officer best known as the husband and supporter of pioneering mathematician and science writer Mary Somerville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Somerville
Target entity description: William Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish physician and army medical officer best known as the husband and supporter of pioneering mathematician and science writer Mary Somerville.
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. William John Cunningham
    William John Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his success with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
  • C. John Brotherton
    John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
  • D. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • E. Charles Ramsay
    Charles Ramsay is known primarily as the son of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the World War II naval commander who helped orchestrate the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings.
  • 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_69bd43f3d6e08190a91824f833d51bbe completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd579f27ac8190ae9a4252109e56e1 completed March 20, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc55254848190940c506e75d79933 completed March 20, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc8eea638819080c255769a66d651 completed March 20, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc96926288190b7a922adf15098f4 completed March 20, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:03 p.m.