Triple

T17753394
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Waltham Watch Company E443167 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Edward Howard
Edward Howard was a 19th-century American watchmaker and industrialist who pioneered high-quality, factory-produced watches in the United States.
E1284839 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: Edward Howard | Statement: [Waltham Watch Company, foundedBy, Edward Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Howard
Context triple: [Waltham Watch Company, foundedBy, Edward Howard]
  • A. Edward Howard
    Edward Howard was an English nobleman and naval commander of the early 16th century who served as Lord High Admiral under King Henry VIII.
  • B. Edward Waterfield
    Edward Waterfield is a Victorian-era English gentleman and scholar best known from Doctor Who as the father of companion Victoria Waterfield, whose experiments with time travel draw him into the Doctor’s adventures.
  • C. Henry Howard
    Henry Howard was a prominent English nobleman and poet of the Tudor period, best known as Earl of Surrey and an early pioneer of English Renaissance poetry.
  • D. Henry Howard
    Henry Howard was an American architect known for designing San Francisco’s landmark Coit Tower.
  • E. Geoffrey Horrocks
    Geoffrey Horrocks is a British linguist and classical scholar best known for his work on the history and development of the Greek language.
  • 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: Edward Howard
Triple: [Waltham Watch Company, foundedBy, Edward Howard]
Generated description
Edward Howard was a 19th-century American watchmaker and industrialist who pioneered high-quality, factory-produced watches in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Howard
Target entity description: Edward Howard was a 19th-century American watchmaker and industrialist who pioneered high-quality, factory-produced watches in the United States.
  • A. Edward Howard
    Edward Howard was an English nobleman and naval commander of the early 16th century who served as Lord High Admiral under King Henry VIII.
  • B. Edward Waterfield
    Edward Waterfield is a Victorian-era English gentleman and scholar best known from Doctor Who as the father of companion Victoria Waterfield, whose experiments with time travel draw him into the Doctor’s adventures.
  • C. Henry Howard
    Henry Howard was a prominent English nobleman and poet of the Tudor period, best known as Earl of Surrey and an early pioneer of English Renaissance poetry.
  • D. Henry Howard
    Henry Howard was an American architect known for designing San Francisco’s landmark Coit Tower.
  • E. Geoffrey Horrocks
    Geoffrey Horrocks is a British linguist and classical scholar best known for his work on the history and development of the Greek language.
  • 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_69d8b9edf16c8190a59ebd245d378f4f completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4841c0540819093a32d759775c61f completed April 19, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0243067e6c8190b94113eb4785faae completed May 11, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0244ca6b348190a1c68dc3bf873f1d completed May 11, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a024530b5dc8190a4776863cc01babf completed May 11, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:10 a.m.