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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.