Triple

T4794903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sopwith Snipe E106686 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object William George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918
The Sopwith Snipe was a British single-seat biplane fighter aircraft introduced late in World War I as a successor to the Sopwith Camel.
E470435 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 George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918 | Statement: [Sopwith Snipe, notableEvent, William George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918
Context triple: [Sopwith Snipe, notableEvent, William George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918]
  • A. Maurice McCudden
    Maurice McCudden was a British First World War flying ace and the younger brother of renowned ace James McCudden.
  • B. Lance Corporal William Schofield in 1917
    Lance Corporal William Schofield in 1917 is the fictional British World War I soldier who serves as the primary protagonist on a perilous mission across enemy territory in the film "1917."
  • C. Albert Ball Sr.
    Albert Ball Sr. was a British businessman and local politician best known as the father of World War I flying ace Albert Ball.
  • D. Albert Ball
    Albert Ball was a renowned British World War I fighter ace celebrated for his exceptional aerial combat skills and numerous victories before his death in 1917.
  • E. Albert Ballu
    Albert Ballu was a French architect known for his public and colonial-era buildings, particularly in late 19th- and early 20th-century France and Algeria.
  • 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 George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918
Triple: [Sopwith Snipe, notableEvent, William George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918]
Generated description
The Sopwith Snipe was a British single-seat biplane fighter aircraft introduced late in World War I as a successor to the Sopwith Camel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William George Barker earned the Victoria Cross flying a Sopwith Snipe on 27 October 1918
Target entity description: The Sopwith Snipe was a British single-seat biplane fighter aircraft introduced late in World War I as a successor to the Sopwith Camel.
  • A. Maurice McCudden
    Maurice McCudden was a British First World War flying ace and the younger brother of renowned ace James McCudden.
  • B. Lance Corporal William Schofield in 1917
    Lance Corporal William Schofield in 1917 is the fictional British World War I soldier who serves as the primary protagonist on a perilous mission across enemy territory in the film "1917."
  • C. Albert Ball Sr.
    Albert Ball Sr. was a British businessman and local politician best known as the father of World War I flying ace Albert Ball.
  • D. Albert Ball
    Albert Ball was a renowned British World War I fighter ace celebrated for his exceptional aerial combat skills and numerous victories before his death in 1917.
  • E. Albert Ballu
    Albert Ballu was a French architect known for his public and colonial-era buildings, particularly in late 19th- and early 20th-century France and Algeria.
  • 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_69bd43f591c881909e5a532388b0f3f3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd66088d588190839acfbac6e1c3dd completed March 20, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43f512e0819086cc33009cd45c9a completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be44cb99ac819089bbb941709a93c4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be451e8d7c81908d856e7966daa5fe completed March 21, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:22 p.m.