Triple

T6476331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South West Surrey E146079 entity
Predicate firstMPAfterCreation P71129 FINISHED
Object David Howell
David Howell is a British Conservative politician and life peer who held several ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport, during a long parliamentary career.
E596865 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: David Howell | Statement: [South West Surrey, firstMPAfterCreation, David Howell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Howell
Context triple: [South West Surrey, firstMPAfterCreation, David Howell]
  • A. David Howell Evans
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • B. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • C. William Howell Davis
    William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
  • D. George Dillon
    George Dillon is a character from the 1987 science fiction action film "Predator," portrayed as a former comrade of Dutch who becomes a CIA operative involved in the ill-fated mission in the Central American jungle.
  • E. George Hartnett
    George Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Hartnett surname.
  • 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: David Howell
Triple: [South West Surrey, firstMPAfterCreation, David Howell]
Generated description
David Howell is a British Conservative politician and life peer who held several ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport, during a long parliamentary career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Howell
Target entity description: David Howell is a British Conservative politician and life peer who held several ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport, during a long parliamentary career.
  • A. David Howell Evans
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • B. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • C. William Howell Davis
    William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
  • D. George Dillon
    George Dillon is a character from the 1987 science fiction action film "Predator," portrayed as a former comrade of Dutch who becomes a CIA operative involved in the ill-fated mission in the Central American jungle.
  • E. George Hartnett
    George Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Hartnett surname.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: firstMPAfterCreation
Context triple: [South West Surrey, firstMPAfterCreation, David Howell]
  • A. firstCreatedAt
    Indicates the time or date at which an entity was initially created for the first time.
  • B. firstProductionAfter
    Indicates that one production event occurs immediately after another in a defined sequence or timeline.
  • C. firstOfficeHolderStart
    Indicates the date or time when the first person to hold a particular office or position began their term.
  • D. firstIntroductionDate
    Indicates the date on which an entity was first introduced or presented for the first time.
  • E. firstProminentlyUsedAfter
    Indicates that one entity began to be widely or notably used only after the time or event associated with another entity.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69c06a49b3bc8190ad80c6ca2dd15c68 completed March 22, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c653a7f348819091bca6b582ad230d completed March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6542017f4819085efe545dd25060f completed March 27, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c656d3533c819091a4255e354eccab completed March 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c0673f6d48819080e10c85155c7195 completed March 22, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69c06822f73081908e6bb9edecbe77a6 completed March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:51 p.m.