Triple

T17889911
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ambrose Fleming E447287 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John Ambrose Fleming, the British electrical engineer and physicist known for inventing the first thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
E1293318 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 | Statement: [John Ambrose Fleming, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Ambrose Fleming, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of the English jurist and scholar John Selden, a prominent 17th-century authority on law and constitutional history.
  • 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
Triple: [John Ambrose Fleming, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John Ambrose Fleming, the British electrical engineer and physicist known for inventing the first thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Ambrose Fleming, the British electrical engineer and physicist known for inventing the first thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Logie Baird, the Scottish engineer and inventor who pioneered the development of television.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of the British physicist J. J. Thomson, who is best known for discovering the electron and proposing the plum pudding model of the atom.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Cockcroft, a pioneering British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on nuclear physics and particle acceleration.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Hays Hammond Jr., an American inventor known for his pioneering work in radio control and naval weaponry.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John R. Pierce, an American engineer and scientist known for his pioneering work in communications and satellite technology.
  • 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_69d8b9f59bd48190a6fc925a855b8bac completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e49d7828b481909b645fceb37a7ca3 completed April 19, 2026, 9:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0313d3dba88190a5dd60d1d4ac63f0 completed May 12, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0314c062388190807c3a40f3693b89 completed May 12, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03158595708190bdfa0391a829fbc3 completed May 12, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:18 a.m.