Triple

T540736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South Shetland Islands E12621 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object William Smith
William Smith was a British sealer and explorer credited with the early 19th-century discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.
 E70879 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 Smith | Statement: [South Shetland Islands, discoveredBy, William Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Smith
Context triple: [South Shetland Islands, discoveredBy, William Smith]
  • A. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • B. Hugh Miller
    Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
  • C. William Holabird
    William Holabird was a prominent American architect known for his influential role in the Chicago School and for co-founding the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
  • D. Edward Leader Williams
    Edward Leader Williams was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for designing and overseeing major canal and waterway projects, including the Manchester Ship Canal.
  • E. Henry Markham
    Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [South Shetland Islands, discoveredBy, William Smith]
Generated description
William Smith was a British sealer and explorer credited with the early 19th-century discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Smith
Target entity description: William Smith was a British sealer and explorer credited with the early 19th-century discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.
  • A. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • B. Hugh Miller
    Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
  • C. William Holabird
    William Holabird was a prominent American architect known for his influential role in the Chicago School and for co-founding the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
  • D. Edward Leader Williams
    Edward Leader Williams was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for designing and overseeing major canal and waterway projects, including the Manchester Ship Canal.
  • E. Henry Markham
    Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4985feee481908184a39210feab95 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4efca0f888190add0fe7ab325bfdf completed March 2, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4f04c01e0819091b0ea4649ced549 completed March 2, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4f0a8730c8190bb7e0804b2081948 completed March 2, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.