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]
  • 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.
  • C. Henry Fowler
    Henry Fowler was a prominent British railway engineer best known for designing influential steam locomotives in the early 20th century.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • C. Henry Fowler
    Henry Fowler was a prominent British railway engineer best known for designing influential steam locomotives in the early 20th century.
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • A. positionHeld chosen
    Indicates that an entity occupies or has occupied a specific role, job, office, or position within an organization or context.
  • B. positionB
    Indicates that one entity occupies or is located at a specific position relative to another entity.
  • C. positionOn
    Indicates that one entity is located on top of or at a specific place along the surface or extent of another entity.
  • D. positionA
    Indicates the spatial or ordered position of an entity A within a defined reference frame or sequence.
  • 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.