Triple

T17532030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meldon Viaduct E426958 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object William Jacomb
William Jacomb was a civil engineer known for designing the Meldon Viaduct, a notable 19th-century railway structure in Devon, England.
E1277697 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 Jacomb | Statement: [Meldon Viaduct, designer, William Jacomb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jacomb
Context triple: [Meldon Viaduct, designer, William Jacomb]
  • A. Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs
    Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs was a British colonial administrator who served as the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda after its independence.
  • B. Alan Jessop
    Alan Jessop is an individual notable enough to be specifically referenced as a bearer of the surname Jessop, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • C. F. W. Jacomb
    F. W. Jacomb was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Castor.
  • D. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • E. John Jessop
    John Jessop is a relatively obscure individual whose name is noted primarily as a recorded bearer of the surname Jessop.
  • 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 Jacomb
Triple: [Meldon Viaduct, designer, William Jacomb]
Generated description
William Jacomb was a civil engineer known for designing the Meldon Viaduct, a notable 19th-century railway structure in Devon, England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jacomb
Target entity description: William Jacomb was a civil engineer known for designing the Meldon Viaduct, a notable 19th-century railway structure in Devon, England.
  • A. Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs
    Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs was a British colonial administrator who served as the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda after its independence.
  • B. Alan Jessop
    Alan Jessop is an individual notable enough to be specifically referenced as a bearer of the surname Jessop, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • C. F. W. Jacomb
    F. W. Jacomb was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Castor.
  • D. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • E. John Jessop
    John Jessop is a relatively obscure individual whose name is noted primarily as a recorded bearer of the surname Jessop.
  • 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_69d889de677081909b22d2657b1f0292 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e453695734819092d4dcbab4a4fa01 completed April 19, 2026, 4 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01e80c38248190bf350df5211f0518 completed May 11, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01ecfb2ff4819082f67ab1f2ce8885 completed May 11, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01ee0c03e881908aaaa3bd0f596387 completed May 11, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.