Triple

T7403761
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Puffing Billy E170814 entity
Predicate designedBy P184 FINISHED
Object William Hedley
William Hedley was an early 19th-century English engineer best known for pioneering steam locomotive design during the formative years of railway development.
E662728 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 Hedley | Statement: [Puffing Billy, designedBy, William Hedley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hedley
Context triple: [Puffing Billy, designedBy, William Hedley]
  • A. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • B. William Rees
    William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
  • C. John Loder
    John Loder was a British-born film and television actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, known for his roles in Hollywood and British cinema.
  • D. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • 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 Hedley
Triple: [Puffing Billy, designedBy, William Hedley]
Generated description
William Hedley was an early 19th-century English engineer best known for pioneering steam locomotive design during the formative years of railway development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hedley
Target entity description: William Hedley was an early 19th-century English engineer best known for pioneering steam locomotive design during the formative years of railway development.
  • A. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • B. William Rees
    William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
  • C. John Loder
    John Loder was a British-born film and television actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, known for his roles in Hollywood and British cinema.
  • D. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • 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_69c68a6010108190925e5284de022660 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2701b108190be39174d4534f231 completed March 27, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81ed79680819087a56082e968c266 completed March 28, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c81f9b565881909bebcc3112037f52 completed March 28, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8207912f4819086e99ed441bee805 completed March 28, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:10 p.m.