Triple
T9715322
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edwin Alderson |
E235127
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson
Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson was a British Army officer best known for commanding Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War.
|
E850489
|
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: Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson | Statement: [Edwin Alderson, birthName, Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson Context triple: [Edwin Alderson, birthName, Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson]
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A.
John Mercer Brooke
John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
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B.
Herbert H. Bateman
Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
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C.
Alfred Brown
Alfred Brown was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom Brown County in South Dakota was named.
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D.
George N. Humphrey
George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
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E.
Alfred E. Hunt
Alfred E. Hunt was an American industrialist and metallurgist who played a key role in launching the modern aluminum industry as the founding leader of what became Alcoa.
- 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: Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson Triple: [Edwin Alderson, birthName, Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson]
Generated description
Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson was a British Army officer best known for commanding Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson Target entity description: Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson was a British Army officer best known for commanding Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War.
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A.
John Mercer Brooke
John Mercer Brooke was a 19th-century American naval officer and inventor best known for his work in naval ordnance and for designing the ironclad warship CSS Virginia for the Confederate States Navy.
-
B.
Herbert H. Bateman
Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
-
C.
Alfred Brown
Alfred Brown was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom Brown County in South Dakota was named.
-
D.
George N. Humphrey
George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
-
E.
Alfred E. Hunt
Alfred E. Hunt was an American industrialist and metallurgist who played a key role in launching the modern aluminum industry as the founding leader of what became Alcoa.
- 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_69ca84cd8fa0819090a5e243ceb37003 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9e0a1b548190b34c8571751ca1d3 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d6a77b6fac81909a9b0998f5dd1e58 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:07 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d6aac2dc4c819088a8c29d604cf9ce |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d6d02015bc8190a7041a7d725c8a1b |
completed | April 8, 2026, 10:01 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:20 p.m.