Triple

T7601082
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Smellie E179983 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie
"Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie" is an autobiographical and biographical work preserving the personal history, literary output, and letters of the Scottish printer, editor, and encyclopedist William Smellie.
E674945 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: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie | Statement: [William Smellie, wrote, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie
Context triple: [William Smellie, wrote, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie]
  • A. The History of Physick
    The History of Physick is an early 18th-century medical history that surveys the development of medicine from ancient times through the classical and medieval periods.
  • B. Autobiography of Francis Place
    Autobiography of Francis Place is the personal memoir of the 19th-century English radical reformer and political activist Francis Place, offering a detailed account of his life, ideas, and involvement in social and political movements.
  • C. Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3
    Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3 is a 19th-century scientific periodical volume notable for publishing foundational works in mathematics and computing, including Ada Lovelace’s influential notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
  • D. Observationes medicae
    Observationes medicae is a 17th-century collection of medical case histories that became an influential early work in clinical observation and pathology.
  • E. Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle is a celebrated collection of the 19th-century Scottish writer’s witty, incisive, and intimate correspondence, valued for its literary merit and vivid portrayal of Victorian life.
  • 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: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie
Triple: [William Smellie, wrote, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie]
Generated description
"Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie" is an autobiographical and biographical work preserving the personal history, literary output, and letters of the Scottish printer, editor, and encyclopedist William Smellie.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie
Target entity description: "Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of William Smellie" is an autobiographical and biographical work preserving the personal history, literary output, and letters of the Scottish printer, editor, and encyclopedist William Smellie.
  • A. The History of Physick
    The History of Physick is an early 18th-century medical history that surveys the development of medicine from ancient times through the classical and medieval periods.
  • B. Autobiography of Francis Place
    Autobiography of Francis Place is the personal memoir of the 19th-century English radical reformer and political activist Francis Place, offering a detailed account of his life, ideas, and involvement in social and political movements.
  • C. Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3
    Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3 is a 19th-century scientific periodical volume notable for publishing foundational works in mathematics and computing, including Ada Lovelace’s influential notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
  • D. Observationes medicae
    Observationes medicae is a 17th-century collection of medical case histories that became an influential early work in clinical observation and pathology.
  • E. Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle is a celebrated collection of the 19th-century Scottish writer’s witty, incisive, and intimate correspondence, valued for its literary merit and vivid portrayal of Victorian life.
  • 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_69c69f3567008190ab01d2ca7b53584a completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f9d9c55c8190841f3bf3225c096a completed March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c861b0649c8190b374b5e81f8ba453 completed March 28, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86211e4f88190b38bce6441e33b53 completed March 28, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c862bb95e881909a60608a5279238d completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.