Triple

T6023540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roy M. Anderson E134119 entity
Predicate hasAcademicAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, was a prominent Australian-born theoretical ecologist and physicist who became a leading figure in population biology and served as the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and President of the Royal Society.
E563554 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 May, Baron May of Oxford | Statement: [Roy M. Anderson, hasAcademicAdvisor, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Context triple: [Roy M. Anderson, hasAcademicAdvisor, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford]
  • A. Lord Browne of Madingley
    Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
  • B. John Widgery, Baron Widgery
    John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
  • C. Kenneth Clarke
    Kenneth Clarke is a veteran British Conservative politician who has held several senior Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is known for his pro-European views and long parliamentary career.
  • D. R. A. Butler
    R. A. Butler was a prominent mid-20th-century British Conservative politician and reformer, noted for shaping postwar social and educational policy and helping define the party’s moderate, consensus-driven direction.
  • E. Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden
    Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden is a British noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom associated with former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his family.
  • 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 May, Baron May of Oxford
Triple: [Roy M. Anderson, hasAcademicAdvisor, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford]
Generated description
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, was a prominent Australian-born theoretical ecologist and physicist who became a leading figure in population biology and served as the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and President of the Royal Society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Target entity description: Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, was a prominent Australian-born theoretical ecologist and physicist who became a leading figure in population biology and served as the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and President of the Royal Society.
  • A. Lord Browne of Madingley
    Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
  • B. John Widgery, Baron Widgery
    John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
  • C. Kenneth Clarke
    Kenneth Clarke is a veteran British Conservative politician who has held several senior Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is known for his pro-European views and long parliamentary career.
  • D. R. A. Butler
    R. A. Butler was a prominent mid-20th-century British Conservative politician and reformer, noted for shaping postwar social and educational policy and helping define the party’s moderate, consensus-driven direction.
  • E. Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden
    Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden is a British noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom associated with former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his family.
  • 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_69c008742a5c8190b9cb9c2787a3d8b3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04fbd7978819085d683578bc62aa3 completed March 22, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c11371ceb88190b0c2d4218ed0327a completed March 23, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c11400ddf08190b99943ada6ff2703 completed March 23, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1147e55fc81909225e1fe9e3eeec4 completed March 23, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:07 p.m.