Triple
T8017314
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Octagon Tower |
E186649
|
entity |
| Predicate | designer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Alan of Walsingham |
E707624
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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, designer, Alan of Walsingham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan of Walsingham Context triple: [Octagon Tower, designer, Alan of Walsingham]
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A.
Alan of Walsingham
chosen
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.
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B.
Richard of Dover
Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
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C.
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*.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69cc63c4937c8190999a156299299ab3 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:20 p.m.