Triple

T4923628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whyte notation E110523 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Frederick Methvan Whyte
Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer best known for devising the Whyte notation system for classifying steam locomotive wheel arrangements.
E480112 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: Frederick Methvan Whyte | Statement: [Whyte notation, namedAfter, Frederick Methvan Whyte]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Methvan Whyte
Context triple: [Whyte notation, namedAfter, Frederick Methvan Whyte]
  • A. Frederic C. Williams
    Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
  • B. Frederick Mills
    Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
  • C. William Revell Moody
    William Revell Moody was the son of famed American evangelist Dwight L. Moody and a religious leader and author who helped preserve and promote his father's evangelical legacy.
  • D. Alfred Morton Githens
    Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
  • E. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • 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: Frederick Methvan Whyte
Triple: [Whyte notation, namedAfter, Frederick Methvan Whyte]
Generated description
Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer best known for devising the Whyte notation system for classifying steam locomotive wheel arrangements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Methvan Whyte
Target entity description: Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer best known for devising the Whyte notation system for classifying steam locomotive wheel arrangements.
  • A. Frederic C. Williams
    Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
  • B. Frederick Mills
    Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
  • C. William Revell Moody
    William Revell Moody was the son of famed American evangelist Dwight L. Moody and a religious leader and author who helped preserve and promote his father's evangelical legacy.
  • D. Alfred Morton Githens
    Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
  • E. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • 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_69bd4413f9908190afcff44d7929cc4c completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6ffd46748190843fed99f02fd8d5 completed March 20, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be77a6e1648190921487e3d81441b3 completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be78292a988190ba51886095629b9c completed March 21, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7892b34c819095100b14a80d6fa4 completed March 21, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.