Triple
T17635688
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mark I tank |
E430086
|
entity |
| Predicate | designer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Walter Gordon Wilson
Walter Gordon Wilson was a British engineer and inventor best known for co-developing the first practical tanks used in World War I.
|
E1281831
|
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: Walter Gordon Wilson | Statement: [Mark I tank, designer, Walter Gordon Wilson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Gordon Wilson Context triple: [Mark I tank, designer, Walter Gordon Wilson]
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A.
Arthur Maitland Wilson
Arthur Maitland Wilson was a British naval officer who served as First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy in the early 20th century and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross.
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B.
Lewis Robert Wilson
Lewis Robert Wilson, better known as Hack Wilson, was a legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball slugger famed for his prodigious power and still-standing single-season RBI record.
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C.
Walter Gordon
Walter Gordon was a German theoretical physicist known for co-formulating the Klein–Gordon equation, one of the earliest relativistic wave equations in quantum mechanics.
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D.
Charles Alling Gifford
Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
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E.
Walter Allen Sheppard
Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
- 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: Walter Gordon Wilson Triple: [Mark I tank, designer, Walter Gordon Wilson]
Generated description
Walter Gordon Wilson was a British engineer and inventor best known for co-developing the first practical tanks used in World War I.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Gordon Wilson Target entity description: Walter Gordon Wilson was a British engineer and inventor best known for co-developing the first practical tanks used in World War I.
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A.
Arthur Maitland Wilson
Arthur Maitland Wilson was a British naval officer who served as First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy in the early 20th century and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross.
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B.
Lewis Robert Wilson
Lewis Robert Wilson, better known as Hack Wilson, was a legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball slugger famed for his prodigious power and still-standing single-season RBI record.
-
C.
Walter Gordon
Walter Gordon was a German theoretical physicist known for co-formulating the Klein–Gordon equation, one of the earliest relativistic wave equations in quantum mechanics.
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D.
Charles Alling Gifford
Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
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E.
Walter Allen Sheppard
Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
- 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_69d889e37f308190a6aa0a69daff86c7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e46de0ad988190b1a2c0bff69eb9f1 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0223188bf881908eb3252fb1b897a1 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 6:42 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0225f7e07c81908d891884142896d8 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 6:54 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a022655e8dc8190a3db150e85d2a535 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 6:56 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:52 a.m.