Triple
T14171932
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tavistock Canal |
E351229
|
entity |
| Predicate | designedBy |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Taylor
John Taylor was a British engineer and canal designer active during the industrial era, known for his work on infrastructure projects such as the Tavistock Canal.
|
E1084739
|
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 Taylor | Statement: [Tavistock Canal, designedBy, John Taylor]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Taylor Context triple: [Tavistock Canal, designedBy, John Taylor]
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A.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
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B.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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C.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
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D.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an early 20th-century baseball executive best known for establishing and running the Negro league team Indianapolis ABCs.
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E.
John Taylor
John Taylor was a prominent 19th-century Trenton, New Jersey industrialist best known for founding Taylor Provisions Company and creating the iconic regional meat product Taylor ham (pork roll).
- 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 Taylor Triple: [Tavistock Canal, designedBy, John Taylor]
Generated description
John Taylor was a British engineer and canal designer active during the industrial era, known for his work on infrastructure projects such as the Tavistock Canal.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Taylor Target entity description: John Taylor was a British engineer and canal designer active during the industrial era, known for his work on infrastructure projects such as the Tavistock Canal.
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A.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
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B.
John Taylor
John Taylor is a notable alumnus of Sedbergh School, an English independent boarding school known for producing distinguished figures in various fields.
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C.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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D.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American statesman from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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E.
John Taylor
John Taylor was a prominent 19th-century Trenton, New Jersey industrialist best known for founding Taylor Provisions Company and creating the iconic regional meat product Taylor ham (pork roll).
- 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_69d8278834a08190b0f1784e58d7b99c |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de61b5dcbc8190b0cfcce5e6c6d582 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcf808e6088190a607903be0f2adc7 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd09bad5b48190913aaba5dd2a509d |
completed | May 7, 2026, 9:52 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd0a7603848190a4b73971cb75f99e |
completed | May 7, 2026, 9:56 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:01 a.m.