Triple

T4635421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plymouth Breakwater E101517 entity
Predicate associatedEngineer P51832 FINISHED
Object Joseph Whidbey
Joseph Whidbey was a British naval officer and surveyor best known for his role in early hydrographic surveys and coastal engineering projects in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E51350 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Joseph Whidbey | Statement: [Plymouth Breakwater, associatedEngineer, Joseph Whidbey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Whidbey
Context triple: [Plymouth Breakwater, associatedEngineer, Joseph Whidbey]
  • A. Robert Gray
    Robert Gray was a 19th-century Anglican bishop who became the first Bishop of Cape Town and a leading figure in establishing the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
  • B. George Vancouver
    George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • C. Johan Sverdrup
    Johan Sverdrup was a prominent 19th-century Norwegian politician and prime minister often regarded as the "father of parliamentarism" in Norway for his central role in establishing parliamentary democracy.
  • D. Peter Forsskål
    Peter Forsskål was an 18th-century Swedish-Finnish naturalist, explorer, and Enlightenment thinker known for his contributions to botany and early ideas on freedom of expression.
  • E. Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
  • 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: Joseph Whidbey
Triple: [Plymouth Breakwater, associatedEngineer, Joseph Whidbey]
Generated description
Joseph Whidbey was a British naval officer and surveyor best known for his role in early hydrographic surveys and coastal engineering projects in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Whidbey
Target entity description: Joseph Whidbey was a British naval officer and surveyor best known for his role in early hydrographic surveys and coastal engineering projects in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. Robert Gray
    Robert Gray was a 19th-century Anglican bishop who became the first Bishop of Cape Town and a leading figure in establishing the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
  • B. George Vancouver chosen
    George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • C. Johan Sverdrup
    Johan Sverdrup was a prominent 19th-century Norwegian politician and prime minister often regarded as the "father of parliamentarism" in Norway for his central role in establishing parliamentary democracy.
  • D. Peter Forsskål
    Peter Forsskål was an 18th-century Swedish-Finnish naturalist, explorer, and Enlightenment thinker known for his contributions to botany and early ideas on freedom of expression.
  • E. Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: associatedEngineer
Context triple: [Plymouth Breakwater, associatedEngineer, Joseph Whidbey]
  • A. laterEngineer
    Indicates that one entity becomes an engineer at a later time than another entity.
  • B. hasEngineeringBy chosen
    Indicates that something is designed, planned, or constructed by a specified engineer or engineering entity.
  • C. chiefEngineer
    Indicates that one entity serves as the primary or lead engineer responsible for overseeing engineering activities for another entity.
  • D. roleInEngine
    Indicates the specific function or responsibility an entity has within an engine or engine-like system.
  • E. developerOfWork
    Indicates that one entity is the creator or producer responsible for making or developing a particular work.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69bd43d2f1c081908cd4b7ec48ecc73d completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a60a66c8190b76f3d3a7da1df55 completed March 20, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfac76734819083ef44d346f62b86 completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb70b9d48190a32c5cc753c45aab completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc54e194819080b1eb5b9f0dfe9e completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69bd5233cb5081908807e2b150f0ca06 completed March 20, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.