Triple

T686540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bigsby Medal E13295 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object William Whitehead Watts
William Whitehead Watts was a British geologist known for his pioneering work on the Precambrian rocks of the English Midlands and his influential role in early 20th-century geological research and education.
E156832 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 Whitehead Watts | Statement: [Bigsby Medal, notableRecipient, William Whitehead Watts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whitehead Watts
Context triple: [Bigsby Medal, notableRecipient, William Whitehead Watts]
  • A. John Watts
    John Watts was an 18th-century London printer and publisher known for producing notable literary and theatrical works.
  • B. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • C. Jacob Wrey Mould
    Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. Henry Willis
    Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
  • E. Thomas Parkhurst
    Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • 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 Whitehead Watts
Triple: [Bigsby Medal, notableRecipient, William Whitehead Watts]
Generated description
William Whitehead Watts was a British geologist known for his pioneering work on the Precambrian rocks of the English Midlands and his influential role in early 20th-century geological research and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whitehead Watts
Target entity description: William Whitehead Watts was a British geologist known for his pioneering work on the Precambrian rocks of the English Midlands and his influential role in early 20th-century geological research and education.
  • A. John Watts
    John Watts was an 18th-century London printer and publisher known for producing notable literary and theatrical works.
  • B. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • C. Jacob Wrey Mould
    Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. Henry Willis
    Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
  • E. Thomas Parkhurst
    Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
  • 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_69a4933e0f98819097d22766c49b61b8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a093ac988190bb339616a3ed5adb completed March 1, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce4b94d08190b7747b0b6d61e3e1 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf3931bc81908e38755e2d024270 completed March 8, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accfb8acfc8190bba379d8bb114c29 completed March 8, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.