Triple
T6748456
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Symington |
E154280
|
entity |
| Predicate | usedBy |
P260
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Symington
William Symington was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering practical steamboat technology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
|
E618585
|
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: William Symington | Statement: [Symington, usedBy, William Symington]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Symington Context triple: [Symington, usedBy, William Symington]
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A.
William Stuart Symington Jr.
William Stuart Symington Jr. was an American businessman and Democratic politician who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and later served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Missouri.
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B.
Henry Bell
Henry Bell was a 17th-century English architect and mayor of King's Lynn, noted for designing prominent Baroque-style civic and commercial buildings.
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C.
Henry Bell
Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer and pioneer of steamship navigation, best known for operating one of Europe's first successful passenger steamboats in the early 19th century.
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D.
James Watt
James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
William Arrol
William Arrol was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and bridge builder renowned for leading the construction of major late-19th-century steel structures, including iconic railway bridges in the United Kingdom.
- 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: William Symington Triple: [Symington, usedBy, William Symington]
Generated description
William Symington was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering practical steamboat technology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Symington Target entity description: William Symington was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering practical steamboat technology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
William Stuart Symington Jr.
William Stuart Symington Jr. was an American businessman and Democratic politician who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and later served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Missouri.
-
B.
Henry Bell
Henry Bell was a 17th-century English architect and mayor of King's Lynn, noted for designing prominent Baroque-style civic and commercial buildings.
-
C.
Henry Bell
Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer and pioneer of steamship navigation, best known for operating one of Europe's first successful passenger steamboats in the early 19th century.
-
D.
James Watt
James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
-
E.
William Arrol
William Arrol was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and bridge builder renowned for leading the construction of major late-19th-century steel structures, including iconic railway bridges in the United Kingdom.
- 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_69c6880ef37881909268a5a7299b9293 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6d1d785dc81909c033084d2068568 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 6:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c712a793cc8190b838806151851711 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 11:28 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c7132017a881909a8f4a8d4635d53f |
completed | March 27, 2026, 11:30 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c715cc0c9c8190aae641eaffa5bd7b |
completed | March 27, 2026, 11:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:11 p.m.