Triple

T6030400
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ashton Memorial E134286 entity
Predicate commissionedBy P27 FINISHED
Object James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton
James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton, was a wealthy English industrialist and philanthropist from Lancaster, best known for his fortune in the linoleum industry and for funding prominent local landmarks.
E563032 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: James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton | Statement: [Ashton Memorial, commissionedBy, James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton
Context triple: [Ashton Memorial, commissionedBy, James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton]
  • A. Sir William Ashburnham
    Sir William Ashburnham was an 18th-century British politician and courtier who held senior governmental and royal household positions, including a key financial role in the Royal Navy.
  • B. John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock
    John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, was a Welsh landowner and peer best known as the father of aviation and motoring pioneer Charles Rolls and for his prominent role in late 19th-century British public life.
  • C. Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
    Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was an influential early 18th-century British soldier and Whig politician renowned for his military service in the War of the Spanish Succession and for developing the celebrated landscape gardens at Stowe.
  • D. Lord Burnett of Maldon
    Lord Burnett of Maldon is a senior British judge who serves as the head of the judiciary and president of the courts of England and Wales.
  • E. Sir Harcourt Butler
    Sir Harcourt Butler was a British colonial administrator in India, notably serving as Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and playing a key role in expanding higher education there.
  • 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: James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton
Triple: [Ashton Memorial, commissionedBy, James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton]
Generated description
James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton, was a wealthy English industrialist and philanthropist from Lancaster, best known for his fortune in the linoleum industry and for funding prominent local landmarks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton
Target entity description: James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton, was a wealthy English industrialist and philanthropist from Lancaster, best known for his fortune in the linoleum industry and for funding prominent local landmarks.
  • A. Sir William Ashburnham
    Sir William Ashburnham was an 18th-century British politician and courtier who held senior governmental and royal household positions, including a key financial role in the Royal Navy.
  • B. John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock
    John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, was a Welsh landowner and peer best known as the father of aviation and motoring pioneer Charles Rolls and for his prominent role in late 19th-century British public life.
  • C. Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
    Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was an influential early 18th-century British soldier and Whig politician renowned for his military service in the War of the Spanish Succession and for developing the celebrated landscape gardens at Stowe.
  • D. Lord Burnett of Maldon
    Lord Burnett of Maldon is a senior British judge who serves as the head of the judiciary and president of the courts of England and Wales.
  • E. Sir Harcourt Butler
    Sir Harcourt Butler was a British colonial administrator in India, notably serving as Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and playing a key role in expanding higher education there.
  • 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_69c0087515148190a97475d412563865 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0561121708190a904e52aa3484988 completed March 22, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c11381aa0c81909487a5eb510c9b41 completed March 23, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c113de5d788190affa46cf416d180d completed March 23, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1145180008190844d91782929349f completed March 23, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.