Triple
T7595692
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Merton Professor of English Language and Literature |
E179851
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHolder |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Walter William Skeat
Walter William Skeat was a prominent 19th-century English philologist and lexicographer best known for his pioneering work on the English language and its etymology.
|
E675412
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: Walter William Skeat | Statement: [Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, positionHolder, Walter William Skeat]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter William Skeat Context triple: [Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, positionHolder, Walter William Skeat]
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A.
Sir James Murray (lexicographer)
Sir James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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B.
William Smith (lexicographer)
William Smith was a 19th-century Scottish lexicographer best known for his influential Latin-English and Greek-English dictionaries and classical reference works.
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C.
Henry Fowler
Henry Fowler was a prominent British railway engineer best known for designing influential steam locomotives in the early 20th century.
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D.
John Camden Hotten
John Camden Hotten was a 19th-century English publisher, bookseller, and author known for his influential role in Victorian literary culture and for founding the firm that became Chatto & Windus.
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E.
C. K. Ogden
C. K. Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer best known for his work on the theory of language, including the development of Basic English and influential studies in semantics.
- 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: Walter William Skeat Triple: [Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, positionHolder, Walter William Skeat]
Generated description
Walter William Skeat was a prominent 19th-century English philologist and lexicographer best known for his pioneering work on the English language and its etymology.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter William Skeat Target entity description: Walter William Skeat was a prominent 19th-century English philologist and lexicographer best known for his pioneering work on the English language and its etymology.
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A.
Sir James Murray (lexicographer)
Sir James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
-
B.
William Smith (lexicographer)
William Smith was a 19th-century Scottish lexicographer best known for his influential Latin-English and Greek-English dictionaries and classical reference works.
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C.
Henry Fowler
Henry Fowler was a prominent British railway engineer best known for designing influential steam locomotives in the early 20th century.
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D.
John Camden Hotten
John Camden Hotten was a 19th-century English publisher, bookseller, and author known for his influential role in Victorian literary culture and for founding the firm that became Chatto & Windus.
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E.
C. K. Ogden
C. K. Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer best known for his work on the theory of language, including the development of Basic English and influential studies in semantics.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: positionHolder Context triple: [Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, positionHolder, Walter William Skeat]
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A.
positionHeld
chosen
Indicates that an entity occupies or has occupied a specific role, job, office, or position within an organization or context.
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B.
positionB
Indicates that one entity occupies or is located at a specific position relative to another entity.
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C.
positionOn
Indicates that one entity is located on top of or at a specific place along the surface or extent of another entity.
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D.
positionA
Indicates the spatial or ordered position of an entity A within a defined reference frame or sequence.
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E.
positionSought
Indicates the specific role, job, or position that an entity is aiming to obtain or apply for.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (6 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_69c69f3487ec8190bf7acdf2dd91e6d6 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6f9d39e9481908bec42447c97e3f8 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c861a3263481908a178b99e487bde5 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c8622eb5fc819092273e49464d0515 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c8631e5c2c8190b1c593ca9bbf039c |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69c6f4e2e42c8190afc802c4796c9cc2 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.