Triple

T8017313
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Octagon Tower E186649 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object Alan of Walsingham
Alan of Walsingham was a 14th-century English monk and master mason best known for designing the innovative octagonal lantern and rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower.
E707624 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: Alan of Walsingham | Statement: [Octagon Tower, architect, Alan of Walsingham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan of Walsingham
Context triple: [Octagon Tower, architect, Alan of Walsingham]
  • A. Richard of Dover
    Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
  • B. Nicholas of Guildford
    Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
  • C. John of Cornwall
    John of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman, the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and a member of the Plantagenet royal family.
  • D. Walter Cromwell
    Walter Cromwell was an English brewer, blacksmith, and innkeeper of Putney, best known as the father of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII.
  • E. William of Hatfield
    William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
  • 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: Alan of Walsingham
Triple: [Octagon Tower, architect, Alan of Walsingham]
Generated description
Alan of Walsingham was a 14th-century English monk and master mason best known for designing the innovative octagonal lantern and rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan of Walsingham
Target entity description: Alan of Walsingham was a 14th-century English monk and master mason best known for designing the innovative octagonal lantern and rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower.
  • A. Richard of Dover
    Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
  • B. Nicholas of Guildford
    Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
  • C. John of Cornwall
    John of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman, the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and a member of the Plantagenet royal family.
  • D. Walter Cromwell
    Walter Cromwell was an English brewer, blacksmith, and innkeeper of Putney, best known as the father of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII.
  • E. William of Hatfield
    William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
  • 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_69ca82ac7fc081909b1398cf025423af completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3df4f1b8819089a8b67f136bce9a completed March 31, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc56c213ec8190b3bd96c42d1357e4 completed March 31, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58a9e94081908980e2c60be38642 completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5cbaefb481909eb325f0d27675c0 completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:20 p.m.