Triple

T6651571
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh E150833 entity
Predicate notableHolder P1918 FINISHED
Object David Wallace
David Wallace is a British philosopher of physics known for his influential work on the foundations of quantum mechanics and the Everett (many-worlds) interpretation.
 E609833 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: David Wallace | Statement: [Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, notableHolder, David Wallace]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Wallace
Context triple: [Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, notableHolder, David Wallace]
  • A. Dan Hughes
    Dan Hughes is an American basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Seattle Storm to a championship and for his long, successful career coaching multiple WNBA franchises.
  • B. Neil Buchanan
    Neil Buchanan is a British television presenter, artist, and musician best known for hosting the children's art show "Art Attack."
  • C. Ron Hutchinson
    Ron Hutchinson is a Northern Irish playwright and screenwriter known for his work in film and television, including adaptations and genre projects in Hollywood.
  • D. Jonathan Corwin
    Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Chuck Campbell
    Chuck Campbell is a fictional character from the groundbreaking 1970s–80s American sitcom "Soap," known primarily as a member of the extended Dallas/Campbell family featured in the series.
  • 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 Wallace
Triple: [Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, notableHolder, David Wallace]
Generated description
David Wallace is a British philosopher of physics known for his influential work on the foundations of quantum mechanics and the Everett (many-worlds) interpretation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Wallace
Target entity description: David Wallace is a British philosopher of physics known for his influential work on the foundations of quantum mechanics and the Everett (many-worlds) interpretation.
  • A. Dan Hughes
    Dan Hughes is an American basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Seattle Storm to a championship and for his long, successful career coaching multiple WNBA franchises.
  • B. Neil Buchanan
    Neil Buchanan is a British television presenter, artist, and musician best known for hosting the children's art show "Art Attack."
  • C. Ron Hutchinson
    Ron Hutchinson is a Northern Irish playwright and screenwriter known for his work in film and television, including adaptations and genre projects in Hollywood.
  • D. Jonathan Corwin
    Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Chuck Campbell
    Chuck Campbell is a fictional character from the groundbreaking 1970s–80s American sitcom "Soap," known primarily as a member of the extended Dallas/Campbell family featured in the series.
  • 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_69c687f2c9508190a60b9aad31d3f358 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b0458fb48190a76d8d1d6273a92b completed March 27, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6eefb3b6c8190ba797dc51966e3a5 completed March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f1ed97248190ab2253b3b2457f4f completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f2c18c0081908958b7ffeed7a787 completed March 27, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:01 p.m.