Triple

T6474417

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	William Hyde Wollaston	`E146033`	entity
Predicate	positionHeld	`P8`	FINISHED
Object	secretary of the Royal Society The secretary of the Royal Society is a senior officer responsible for overseeing the scientific administration and scholarly activities of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.	`E595646`	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: secretary of the Royal Society | Statement: [William Hyde Wollaston, positionHeld, secretary of the Royal Society]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: secretary of the Royal Society
Context triple: [William Hyde Wollaston, positionHeld, secretary of the Royal Society]

A. President of the Royal Society
The President of the Royal Society is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, overseeing its scientific leadership, governance, and public representation.
B. Director of the Royal Institution
The Director of the Royal Institution is the head of the historic London-based scientific organization renowned for advancing public understanding and research in science.
C. President of the British Academy
The President of the British Academy is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, overseeing its scholarly and public activities.
D. President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
The President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science is the elected head of a major UK scientific society responsible for promoting and coordinating scientific research and public understanding of science.
E. Vice-Presidents of the British Academy
The Vice-Presidents of the British Academy are senior officers who support and deputize for the President in leading and representing the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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: secretary of the Royal Society
Triple: [William Hyde Wollaston, positionHeld, secretary of the Royal Society]

Generated description

The secretary of the Royal Society is a senior officer responsible for overseeing the scientific administration and scholarly activities of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: secretary of the Royal Society
Target entity description: The secretary of the Royal Society is a senior officer responsible for overseeing the scientific administration and scholarly activities of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.

A. President of the Royal Society
The President of the Royal Society is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, overseeing its scientific leadership, governance, and public representation.
B. Director of the Royal Institution
The Director of the Royal Institution is the head of the historic London-based scientific organization renowned for advancing public understanding and research in science.
C. President of the British Academy
The President of the British Academy is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, overseeing its scholarly and public activities.
D. President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
The President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science is the elected head of a major UK scientific society responsible for promoting and coordinating scientific research and public understanding of science.
E. Vice-Presidents of the British Academy
The Vice-Presidents of the British Academy are senior officers who support and deputize for the President in leading and representing the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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_69c008fec7408190af7b146dc63d9750`	completed	March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69c06a341360819082f2b5496a1a68b0`	completed	March 22, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69c653a2b2508190a3691412f853ed6f`	completed	March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69c6552b90848190961250b1e64595e1`	completed	March 27, 2026, 10 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69c655bce7548190b4c5661a7aaa77e1`	completed	March 27, 2026, 10:02 a.m.

Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:50 p.m.