Triple

T891774
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heinrich Hertz E19253 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Oliver Lodge
Oliver Lodge was a British physicist and writer best known for his pioneering work in wireless telegraphy and early radio, as well as his popular writings on science and spiritualism.
E109258 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: Oliver Lodge | Statement: [Heinrich Hertz, influenced, Oliver Lodge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Lodge
Context triple: [Heinrich Hertz, influenced, Oliver Lodge]
  • A. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Joseph Henry West
    Joseph Henry West is the full legal name of Joe West, a character commonly known in popular media under his shorter, informal name.
  • C. George Philip Wells
    George Philip Wells was a British zoologist and author, known both for his scientific work and as the son of writer H. G. Wells.
  • D. Joseph Larmor
    Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
  • E. Alfred Harker
    Alfred Harker was a British geologist and petrologist renowned for his pioneering work on igneous rocks and the geology of the British Isles.
  • 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: Oliver Lodge
Triple: [Heinrich Hertz, influenced, Oliver Lodge]
Generated description
Oliver Lodge was a British physicist and writer best known for his pioneering work in wireless telegraphy and early radio, as well as his popular writings on science and spiritualism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Lodge
Target entity description: Oliver Lodge was a British physicist and writer best known for his pioneering work in wireless telegraphy and early radio, as well as his popular writings on science and spiritualism.
  • A. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Joseph Henry West
    Joseph Henry West is the full legal name of Joe West, a character commonly known in popular media under his shorter, informal name.
  • C. George Philip Wells
    George Philip Wells was a British zoologist and author, known both for his scientific work and as the son of writer H. G. Wells.
  • D. Joseph Larmor
    Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
  • E. Alfred Harker
    Alfred Harker was a British geologist and petrologist renowned for his pioneering work on igneous rocks and the geology of the British Isles.
  • 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_69a4939d37188190848be3d426ebc9ae completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ad019e448190ab991e85dc6d7708 completed March 1, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee02a21c819088e6a137ea306efd completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7eebc724c8190a364782ec8e672e0 completed March 4, 2026, 8:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ef2ed2c881909dc1d2d6fb39805a completed March 4, 2026, 8:37 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.