Triple

T468763
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victorian era E8506 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
 E58641 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: Joseph Lister | Statement: [Victorian era, notableFigure, Joseph Lister]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph Lister
Context triple: [Victorian era, notableFigure, Joseph Lister]
  • A. Thomas Beddoes
    Thomas Beddoes was an English physician, chemist, and early pioneer of pneumatic medicine known for his progressive scientific and political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich was a pioneering German physician and scientist renowned for his work in immunology, hematology, and chemotherapy, and as a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • C. Robert Koch
    Robert Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, laying the foundations of modern bacteriology.
  • D. Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, known for his pioneering work in vascular suturing and organ transplantation.
  • E. Emil Theodor Kocher
    Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in thyroid surgery and surgical techniques.
  • 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 Lister
Triple: [Victorian era, notableFigure, Joseph Lister]
Generated description
Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph Lister
Target entity description: Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • A. Thomas Beddoes
    Thomas Beddoes was an English physician, chemist, and early pioneer of pneumatic medicine known for his progressive scientific and political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich was a pioneering German physician and scientist renowned for his work in immunology, hematology, and chemotherapy, and as a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • C. Robert Koch
    Robert Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, laying the foundations of modern bacteriology.
  • D. Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, known for his pioneering work in vascular suturing and organ transplantation.
  • E. Emil Theodor Kocher
    Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in thyroid surgery and surgical techniques.
  • 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_69a2e7f3aeb48190a19453e3a043f486 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2efee0ea0819099d87f3727c03bc7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a45803a8c081908e5f5a03f462cd2e completed March 1, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a45d6f45a0819099ced2dc87124c2c completed March 1, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a45e24f1308190b852050d56348f57 completed March 1, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.