Triple
T5424642
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses |
E121333
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Withering |
E22809
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Withering | Statement: [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses, author, William Withering]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Withering Context triple: [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses, author, William Withering]
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A.
William Withering
chosen
William Withering was an 18th-century English physician and botanist best known for introducing the medical use of digitalis (foxglove) to treat heart disease.
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B.
William Cullen
William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
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C.
William Price
William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
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D.
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.
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E.
Dr. Richard Mead
Dr. Richard Mead was a prominent early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential work on public health and his association with leading literary and scientific figures of his time.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd463b58d88190b258261573de9e91 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd88142b4c8190a0a9fce117aaef14 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf487db2bc81908822d3adadaff0dd |
completed | March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.