Triple
T13152041
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Reith |
E312489
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Charles Walsham Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.
|
E1025294
|
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: John Charles Walsham Reith | Statement: [John Reith, fullName, John Charles Walsham Reith]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Charles Walsham Reith Context triple: [John Reith, fullName, John Charles Walsham Reith]
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A.
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby was a pioneering British broadcaster and war correspondent, best known as the BBC’s first television news commentator and one of the most authoritative voices in mid-20th-century British journalism.
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B.
William Penney
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
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C.
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip Noel-Baker was a British politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning disarmament advocate who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Sir Ernest Ryder
Sir Ernest Ryder is a senior British judge who has served as Senior President of Tribunals and as a Lord Justice of Appeal.
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E.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet was a Canadian-born British media magnate who built a vast newspaper and broadcasting empire and became one of the most influential press barons of the 20th century.
- 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: John Charles Walsham Reith Triple: [John Reith, fullName, John Charles Walsham Reith]
Generated description
John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Charles Walsham Reith Target entity description: John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.
-
A.
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby was a pioneering British broadcaster and war correspondent, best known as the BBC’s first television news commentator and one of the most authoritative voices in mid-20th-century British journalism.
-
B.
William Penney
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
-
C.
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip Noel-Baker was a British politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning disarmament advocate who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century.
-
D.
Sir Ernest Ryder
Sir Ernest Ryder is a senior British judge who has served as Senior President of Tribunals and as a Lord Justice of Appeal.
-
E.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet was a Canadian-born British media magnate who built a vast newspaper and broadcasting empire and became one of the most influential press barons of the 20th century.
- 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_69d806aabde48190899e13e41659cae5 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d98bd317e0819086e383f8e4583630 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f6eaeca00c8190aa5645d1084c7d60 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:27 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f6f17376c88190b08a4f2f5967b57c |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:55 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f6f1e5bc888190a0a82f45922de104 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:57 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:11 p.m.