Triple

T6432187
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scunthorpe United F.C. E129803 entity
Predicate notableFormerManager P896 FINISHED
Object Nigel Adkins
Nigel Adkins is an English football manager and former goalkeeper best known for guiding clubs such as Scunthorpe United and Southampton to multiple promotions through the English league system.
E595824 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: Nigel Adkins | Statement: [Scunthorpe United F.C., notableFormerManager, Nigel Adkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nigel Adkins
Context triple: [Scunthorpe United F.C., notableFormerManager, Nigel Adkins]
  • A. Nigel Williams
    Nigel Williams is a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his work in television dramas and literary fiction.
  • B. Nigel Ball
    Nigel Ball is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Ball, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • C. Julian Morris
    Julian Morris is a British actor known for his roles in television series such as "Pretty Little Liars," "New Girl," and various film and TV dramas.
  • D. Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport was a distinguished English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre from the 1950s through the 1990s.
  • E. Mike Gascoyne
    Mike Gascoyne is a British Formula One engineer renowned for his technical leadership roles at several F1 teams, including Jordan, Renault, Toyota, and Spyker.
  • 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: Nigel Adkins
Triple: [Scunthorpe United F.C., notableFormerManager, Nigel Adkins]
Generated description
Nigel Adkins is an English football manager and former goalkeeper best known for guiding clubs such as Scunthorpe United and Southampton to multiple promotions through the English league system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nigel Adkins
Target entity description: Nigel Adkins is an English football manager and former goalkeeper best known for guiding clubs such as Scunthorpe United and Southampton to multiple promotions through the English league system.
  • A. Nigel Williams
    Nigel Williams is a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his work in television dramas and literary fiction.
  • B. Nigel Ball
    Nigel Ball is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Ball, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • C. Julian Morris
    Julian Morris is a British actor known for his roles in television series such as "Pretty Little Liars," "New Girl," and various film and TV dramas.
  • D. Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport was a distinguished English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre from the 1950s through the 1990s.
  • E. Mike Gascoyne
    Mike Gascoyne is a British Formula One engineer renowned for his technical leadership roles at several F1 teams, including Jordan, Renault, Toyota, and Spyker.
  • 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_69c0084caac48190a7bc2ad8ba44536f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0693cadf08190aca84888a3440b3d completed March 22, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6538ca31c8190b4a24662c4eeffe9 completed March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6542f23548190a0905c0e2c7341f6 completed March 27, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c654918d9881909f3886ec52a7b00b completed March 27, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:44 p.m.