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]
  • A. John Taylor
    John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • D. John Taylor
    John Taylor was an early 20th-century baseball executive best known for establishing and running the Negro league team Indianapolis ABCs.
  • 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.
  • A. John Taylor
    John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.