Triple

T11993150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Newcomen atmospheric engine E285462 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen was an early 18th-century English inventor and engineer best known for developing the first practical steam engine used to pump water from mines.
E958611 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: Thomas Newcomen | Statement: [Newcomen atmospheric engine, namedAfter, Thomas Newcomen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Newcomen
Context triple: [Newcomen atmospheric engine, namedAfter, Thomas Newcomen]
  • A. Anne Newcomen
    Anne Newcomen was an English gentlewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as the wife of Edward Montagu and mother of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
  • B. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. William Symington
    William Symington was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering practical steamboat technology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Boulton and Watt
    Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor best known for creating the spinning mule, a pivotal textile machine that greatly advanced cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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: Thomas Newcomen
Triple: [Newcomen atmospheric engine, namedAfter, Thomas Newcomen]
Generated description
Thomas Newcomen was an early 18th-century English inventor and engineer best known for developing the first practical steam engine used to pump water from mines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Newcomen
Target entity description: Thomas Newcomen was an early 18th-century English inventor and engineer best known for developing the first practical steam engine used to pump water from mines.
  • A. Anne Newcomen
    Anne Newcomen was an English gentlewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as the wife of Edward Montagu and mother of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
  • B. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. William Symington
    William Symington was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering practical steamboat technology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Boulton and Watt
    Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor best known for creating the spinning mule, a pivotal textile machine that greatly advanced cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903b11ac481909866b611380792e7 completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4726696dc8190bf2a7aa43cb08b19 completed May 1, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7d4ef081908f7f87d90c00d9ed completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47de8c9e48190af01918c9cd94c7d completed May 1, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.