Triple

T546974
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clive E12753 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Clive (historian)
John Clive was a British-born American historian and biographer best known for his works on 18th- and 19th-century British history and his acclaimed biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
E68242 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: John Clive (historian) | Statement: [Clive, hasNotableBearer, John Clive (historian)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Clive (historian)
Context triple: [Clive, hasNotableBearer, John Clive (historian)]
  • A. Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
  • B. Sir Sidney Lee
    Sir Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on Shakespeare and for helping shape authoritative reference works on notable figures.
  • C. John Darwin (historian)
    John Darwin is a British historian known for his influential work on the history of the British Empire, global imperialism, and decolonization.
  • D. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • E. R. H. Tawney
    R. H. Tawney was a prominent British economic historian, Christian socialist, and social critic known for his influential analyses of religion, capitalism, and social inequality.
  • 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: John Clive (historian)
Triple: [Clive, hasNotableBearer, John Clive (historian)]
Generated description
John Clive was a British-born American historian and biographer best known for his works on 18th- and 19th-century British history and his acclaimed biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Clive (historian)
Target entity description: John Clive was a British-born American historian and biographer best known for his works on 18th- and 19th-century British history and his acclaimed biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  • A. Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
  • B. Sir Sidney Lee
    Sir Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on Shakespeare and for helping shape authoritative reference works on notable figures.
  • C. John Darwin (historian)
    John Darwin is a British historian known for his influential work on the history of the British Empire, global imperialism, and decolonization.
  • D. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • E. R. H. Tawney
    R. H. Tawney was a prominent British economic historian, Christian socialist, and social critic known for his influential analyses of religion, capitalism, and social inequality.
  • 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_69a498e2e8c88190a66d759ed3094e18 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4d044b03c8190b7c87b0da05e4d6e completed March 1, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4d0daca588190a6a1865ae3d12c71 completed March 1, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4d18801248190afedd4ea5f718bd7 completed March 1, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.