Triple

T12018628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William S. Clark E286089 entity
Predicate knownAs P39 FINISHED
Object William Smith Clark
William Smith Clark was a 19th-century American educator and agricultural scientist best known for helping found Hokkaido University in Japan and inspiring students with the phrase "Boys, be ambitious."
E959523 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: William Smith Clark | Statement: [William S. Clark, knownAs, William Smith Clark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith Clark
Context triple: [William S. Clark, knownAs, William Smith Clark]
  • A. William Tierney Clark
    William Tierney Clark was a pioneering 19th-century British civil engineer best known for designing early suspension bridges in Britain and Central Europe, including the landmark Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest.
  • B. Josiah Whitney
    Josiah Whitney was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor who served as the state geologist of California and became a leading figure in the geological exploration of the American West.
  • C. James B. Clark
    James B. Clark was an American film editor and director known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
  • D. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • E. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • 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: William Smith Clark
Triple: [William S. Clark, knownAs, William Smith Clark]
Generated description
William Smith Clark was a 19th-century American educator and agricultural scientist best known for helping found Hokkaido University in Japan and inspiring students with the phrase "Boys, be ambitious."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith Clark
Target entity description: William Smith Clark was a 19th-century American educator and agricultural scientist best known for helping found Hokkaido University in Japan and inspiring students with the phrase "Boys, be ambitious."
  • A. William Tierney Clark
    William Tierney Clark was a pioneering 19th-century British civil engineer best known for designing early suspension bridges in Britain and Central Europe, including the landmark Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest.
  • B. Josiah Whitney
    Josiah Whitney was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor who served as the state geologist of California and became a leading figure in the geological exploration of the American West.
  • C. James B. Clark
    James B. Clark was an American film editor and director known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
  • D. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • E. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903dabf2c819084dcaa05ae0a6018 completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48b53cd08819084a9335449844f12 completed May 1, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f48fc6da4c81908442f18cb4a65b27 completed May 1, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f495f069c48190a6e5856c272420c0 completed May 1, 2026, noon
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.