Triple

T18216514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vickers E436173 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Edward Vickers
William Edward Vickers was a British crime and mystery writer best known for his detective fiction published under various pseudonyms in the early 20th century.
E1430661 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 Edward Vickers | Statement: [Vickers, hasNotableBearer, William Edward Vickers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Edward Vickers
Context triple: [Vickers, hasNotableBearer, William Edward Vickers]
  • A. Frederick H. Winston
    Frederick H. Winston was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician best known as the founding partner of the international law firm Winston & Strawn.
  • B. Bernard P. Fife
    Bernard P. Fife is the full name of Barney Fife, the bumbling yet lovable deputy sheriff character from the classic television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
  • C. Frederick L. Ashworth
    Frederick L. Ashworth was a U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission during World War II.
  • D. James Flack Norris
    James Flack Norris was an American chemist and influential educator known for his work in organic chemistry and for helping shape early 20th-century chemical education in the United States.
  • E. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • 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 Edward Vickers
Triple: [Vickers, hasNotableBearer, William Edward Vickers]
Generated description
William Edward Vickers was a British crime and mystery writer best known for his detective fiction published under various pseudonyms in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Edward Vickers
Target entity description: William Edward Vickers was a British crime and mystery writer best known for his detective fiction published under various pseudonyms in the early 20th century.
  • A. Frederick H. Winston
    Frederick H. Winston was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician best known as the founding partner of the international law firm Winston & Strawn.
  • B. Bernard P. Fife
    Bernard P. Fife is the full name of Barney Fife, the bumbling yet lovable deputy sheriff character from the classic television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
  • C. Frederick L. Ashworth
    Frederick L. Ashworth was a U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission during World War II.
  • D. James Flack Norris
    James Flack Norris was an American chemist and influential educator known for his work in organic chemistry and for helping shape early 20th-century chemical education in the United States.
  • E. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • 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_69d8b9103a8081908bbb0836fef10efd completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4e47765a081908d0bbca1245f89ba completed April 19, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0883db3d888190a737968796e13f79 completed May 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0884d316148190b1fe155fc2dfbb7b completed May 16, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088565cbcc81909b4bbc286d272ef6 completed May 16, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.