Triple

T20329832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Bedford E492445 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object David Colin Bedford
David Colin Bedford is a former British long-distance runner best known for breaking the 10,000 metres world record in 1973 and later serving as a prominent athletics administrator.
E1435815 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: David Colin Bedford | Statement: [David Bedford, name, David Colin Bedford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Colin Bedford
Context triple: [David Bedford, name, David Colin Bedford]
  • A. Clive Beddoe
    Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
  • B. Colin Stinton
    Colin Stinton is a Canadian-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, often portraying authoritative or bureaucratic figures.
  • C. Andrew Colvile
    Andrew Colvile was a 19th-century Scottish-born governor of the Hudson's Bay Company who played a significant role in the fur trade and the development of the Pacific Northwest.
  • D. Colin Hodgkin
    Colin Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Hodgkin surname, likely recognized for contributions in a professional or academic field.
  • E. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • 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: David Colin Bedford
Triple: [David Bedford, name, David Colin Bedford]
Generated description
David Colin Bedford is a former British long-distance runner best known for breaking the 10,000 metres world record in 1973 and later serving as a prominent athletics administrator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Colin Bedford
Target entity description: David Colin Bedford is a former British long-distance runner best known for breaking the 10,000 metres world record in 1973 and later serving as a prominent athletics administrator.
  • A. Clive Beddoe
    Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
  • B. Colin Stinton
    Colin Stinton is a Canadian-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, often portraying authoritative or bureaucratic figures.
  • C. Andrew Colvile
    Andrew Colvile was a 19th-century Scottish-born governor of the Hudson's Bay Company who played a significant role in the fur trade and the development of the Pacific Northwest.
  • D. Colin Hodgkin
    Colin Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Hodgkin surname, likely recognized for contributions in a professional or academic field.
  • E. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • 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_69e0b4a1a09881908d97270d6971a25a completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e677e6f5d08190bedf376bbb999ebc completed April 20, 2026, 7 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a089d23e6808190a26b30d46546a84b completed May 16, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a089df251c481908043e3d7ad79198f completed May 16, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a089e8a05488190b3470f4ffb5927ce completed May 16, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:22 a.m.