Triple

T6991613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plan 9 from Bell Labs E162097 entity
Predicate developer P73 FINISHED
Object Phil Winterbottom
Phil Winterbottom is a computer scientist and software engineer best known for his work at Bell Labs on the Plan 9 operating system and related systems research.
E632962 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: Phil Winterbottom | Statement: [Plan 9 from Bell Labs, developer, Phil Winterbottom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phil Winterbottom
Context triple: [Plan 9 from Bell Labs, developer, Phil Winterbottom]
  • A. Michael Jessop
    Michael Jessop is a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, a learned society dedicated to scientific and intellectual inquiry in Derby, England.
  • B. George Witton
    George Witton was an Australian soldier involved in the controversial Boer War court-martial alongside Breaker Morant, later known for his memoir protesting the convictions.
  • C. Stephen Pycroft
    Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • D. Colin Goudie
    Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
  • E. Colin Hanton
    Colin Hanton is an English drummer best known for playing with The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that evolved into The Beatles.
  • 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: Phil Winterbottom
Triple: [Plan 9 from Bell Labs, developer, Phil Winterbottom]
Generated description
Phil Winterbottom is a computer scientist and software engineer best known for his work at Bell Labs on the Plan 9 operating system and related systems research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phil Winterbottom
Target entity description: Phil Winterbottom is a computer scientist and software engineer best known for his work at Bell Labs on the Plan 9 operating system and related systems research.
  • A. Michael Jessop
    Michael Jessop is a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, a learned society dedicated to scientific and intellectual inquiry in Derby, England.
  • B. George Witton
    George Witton was an Australian soldier involved in the controversial Boer War court-martial alongside Breaker Morant, later known for his memoir protesting the convictions.
  • C. Stephen Pycroft
    Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • D. Colin Goudie
    Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
  • E. Colin Hanton
    Colin Hanton is an English drummer best known for playing with The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that evolved into The Beatles.
  • 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_69c68856d7808190ab33ee914640281b completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dbc1f63c8190837cfd71cf5ed613 completed March 27, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c761d6ed5481909ccf1650fe6dc747 completed March 28, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c763053a308190a8bd34fe72be5065 completed March 28, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c763d604148190a3004ab99c79834f completed March 28, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:32 p.m.