Triple

T5377441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln College, Oxford E112995 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Sir Julian Bullard
Sir Julian Bullard was a prominent British diplomat who served as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to West Germany during the Cold War.
E514971 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: Sir Julian Bullard | Statement: [Lincoln College, Oxford, hasAlumni, Sir Julian Bullard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Julian Bullard
Context triple: [Lincoln College, Oxford, hasAlumni, Sir Julian Bullard]
  • A. Sir John Woodroffe
    Sir John Woodroffe was a British Orientalist, jurist, and scholar best known for his influential English translations and interpretations of Hindu Tantric texts under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon.
  • B. Sir Walter Parratt
    Sir Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s Music and held several prestigious church and court musical appointments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Geoffrey Boulton
    Geoffrey Boulton is a distinguished British geologist and glaciologist known for his influential research on ice sheets, climate change, and Earth surface processes.
  • D. Sir John Bourn
    Sir John Bourn was a British public servant best known for serving as the Comptroller and Auditor General of the United Kingdom, overseeing the auditing of government departments and public spending.
  • E. Sir Michael Marshall
    Sir Michael Marshall was a prominent British businessman and aviation industry leader who headed the Marshall Group in Cambridge and was known for his contributions to aerospace and local civic life.
  • 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: Sir Julian Bullard
Triple: [Lincoln College, Oxford, hasAlumni, Sir Julian Bullard]
Generated description
Sir Julian Bullard was a prominent British diplomat who served as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to West Germany during the Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Julian Bullard
Target entity description: Sir Julian Bullard was a prominent British diplomat who served as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to West Germany during the Cold War.
  • A. Sir John Woodroffe
    Sir John Woodroffe was a British Orientalist, jurist, and scholar best known for his influential English translations and interpretations of Hindu Tantric texts under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon.
  • B. Sir Walter Parratt
    Sir Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s Music and held several prestigious church and court musical appointments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Geoffrey Boulton
    Geoffrey Boulton is a distinguished British geologist and glaciologist known for his influential research on ice sheets, climate change, and Earth surface processes.
  • D. Sir John Bourn
    Sir John Bourn was a British public servant best known for serving as the Comptroller and Auditor General of the United Kingdom, overseeing the auditing of government departments and public spending.
  • E. Sir Michael Marshall
    Sir Michael Marshall was a prominent British businessman and aviation industry leader who headed the Marshall Group in Cambridge and was known for his contributions to aerospace and local civic life.
  • 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86cb13ac81909dc364e7d3605844 completed March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf29428cec8190a20bea8fcae59d8f completed March 21, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf29ba3e1c8190987f22566a9ec806 completed March 21, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2a489ec88190bbeb628b4903607c completed March 21, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.