Triple

T5820177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whipple Museum of the History of Science E129087 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Robert Stewart Whipple
Robert Stewart Whipple was a British businessman, collector, and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge.
E554462 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: Robert Stewart Whipple | Statement: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Robert Stewart Whipple]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stewart Whipple
Context triple: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Robert Stewart Whipple]
  • A. Charles Goodell
    Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
  • B. Amiel Weeks Whipple
    Amiel Weeks Whipple was a 19th-century United States Army officer and topographical engineer known for his surveys of the American West and his service as a Union general in the Civil War.
  • C. Robert Charles Winthrop
    Robert Charles Winthrop was a 19th-century American lawyer, philanthropist, and Whig politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
  • D. Charles Evans Whittaker
    Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
  • E. Henry Rossiter Worthington
    Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
  • 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: Robert Stewart Whipple
Triple: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Robert Stewart Whipple]
Generated description
Robert Stewart Whipple was a British businessman, collector, and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stewart Whipple
Target entity description: Robert Stewart Whipple was a British businessman, collector, and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge.
  • A. Charles Goodell
    Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
  • B. Amiel Weeks Whipple
    Amiel Weeks Whipple was a 19th-century United States Army officer and topographical engineer known for his surveys of the American West and his service as a Union general in the Civil War.
  • C. Robert Charles Winthrop
    Robert Charles Winthrop was a 19th-century American lawyer, philanthropist, and Whig politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
  • D. Charles Evans Whittaker
    Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
  • E. Henry Rossiter Worthington
    Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
  • 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_69c0084869e881908d7859492183ca7b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c033e598f48190abd859c5a2ba08dd completed March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b0e20c208190b861fa8066852efc completed March 23, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b49e1c008190b503d76e0c9397d3 completed March 23, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b4f3ec388190b742449beccf82ef completed March 23, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:53 p.m.