Triple

T6788520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos) E155872 entity
Predicate firstFemaleHolder P4487 FINISHED
Object Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)
Philippa Fawcett was a pioneering English mathematician who, in 1890, achieved the highest score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos—surpassing all her male peers—at a time when women were not officially ranked.
E620790 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: Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked) | Statement: [Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos), firstFemaleHolder, Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)
Context triple: [Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos), firstFemaleHolder, Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)]
  • A. Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos)
    The Senior Wrangler in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos is the top-ranked mathematics undergraduate in the final-year examinations, historically regarded as one of the highest academic distinctions in British mathematics.
  • B. Dorothy Wadham
    Dorothy Wadham was an English noblewoman and philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing Wadham College at the University of Oxford in the early 17th century.
  • C. Dame Mary Tyrwhitt
    Dame Mary Tyrwhitt was a pioneering British Army officer who became one of the first high-ranking female commanders and a leading figure in the development of women’s service in the British armed forces.
  • D. Fellows of Girton College
    Fellows of Girton College are senior academic members of Girton College, Cambridge, responsible for teaching, research, and participating in the college’s governance.
  • E. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
    Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick was a British educational reformer, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and prominent psychical researcher known for her work with the Society for Psychical Research.
  • 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: Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)
Triple: [Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos), firstFemaleHolder, Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)]
Generated description
Philippa Fawcett was a pioneering English mathematician who, in 1890, achieved the highest score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos—surpassing all her male peers—at a time when women were not officially ranked.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philippa Fawcett (placed above the Senior Wrangler in 1890 but not officially ranked)
Target entity description: Philippa Fawcett was a pioneering English mathematician who, in 1890, achieved the highest score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos—surpassing all her male peers—at a time when women were not officially ranked.
  • A. Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos)
    The Senior Wrangler in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos is the top-ranked mathematics undergraduate in the final-year examinations, historically regarded as one of the highest academic distinctions in British mathematics.
  • B. Dorothy Wadham
    Dorothy Wadham was an English noblewoman and philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing Wadham College at the University of Oxford in the early 17th century.
  • C. Dame Mary Tyrwhitt
    Dame Mary Tyrwhitt was a pioneering British Army officer who became one of the first high-ranking female commanders and a leading figure in the development of women’s service in the British armed forces.
  • D. Fellows of Girton College
    Fellows of Girton College are senior academic members of Girton College, Cambridge, responsible for teaching, research, and participating in the college’s governance.
  • E. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
    Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick was a British educational reformer, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and prominent psychical researcher known for her work with the Society for Psychical Research.
  • 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_69c6881770fc8190972b2906390380f5 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d2aa2e0c8190b994261826ae001d completed March 27, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c71a8998408190b741417ce6f21f55 completed March 28, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c71e2ad0b08190a24f8865b8074b35 completed March 28, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c71e9ec7148190a5f1df4951990f64 completed March 28, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:14 p.m.