Triple

T20350622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fothergill E495995 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Fothergill (physician)
John Fothergill was an 18th-century English physician and philanthropist known for his influential medical practice, writings on diseases such as sore throat and influenza, and his contributions to botany and Quaker social causes.
E1425767 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 Fothergill (physician) | Statement: [Fothergill, hasNotableBearer, John Fothergill (physician)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Fothergill (physician)
Context triple: [Fothergill, hasNotableBearer, John Fothergill (physician)]
  • A. William Hunter
    William Hunter was an 18th-century Scottish anatomist and physician renowned for his pioneering work in obstetrics and anatomical teaching in London.
  • B. William Hunter
    William Hunter was an 18th-century printer and publisher known for issuing influential Masonic works, including Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723.
  • C. William Cullen
    William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
  • D. Dr. Samuel Fergusson
    Dr. Samuel Fergusson is the adventurous British explorer and scientist who undertakes a daring aerial journey across Africa in Jules Verne’s novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon."
  • E. William Price
    William Price is a good-natured, seafaring brother of Fanny Price in Jane Austen’s novel "Mansfield Park," known for his lively spirit and affectionate loyalty to his family.
  • 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 Fothergill (physician)
Triple: [Fothergill, hasNotableBearer, John Fothergill (physician)]
Generated description
John Fothergill was an 18th-century English physician and philanthropist known for his influential medical practice, writings on diseases such as sore throat and influenza, and his contributions to botany and Quaker social causes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Fothergill (physician)
Target entity description: John Fothergill was an 18th-century English physician and philanthropist known for his influential medical practice, writings on diseases such as sore throat and influenza, and his contributions to botany and Quaker social causes.
  • A. William Hunter
    William Hunter was an 18th-century Scottish anatomist and physician renowned for his pioneering work in obstetrics and anatomical teaching in London.
  • B. William Hunter
    William Hunter was an 18th-century printer and publisher known for issuing influential Masonic works, including Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723.
  • C. William Cullen
    William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
  • D. Dr. Samuel Fergusson
    Dr. Samuel Fergusson is the adventurous British explorer and scientist who undertakes a daring aerial journey across Africa in Jules Verne’s novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon."
  • E. William Price
    William Price is a good-natured, seafaring brother of Fanny Price in Jane Austen’s novel "Mansfield Park," known for his lively spirit and affectionate loyalty to his family.
  • 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_69e0b4a3320881909495ae8bc30bc2dc completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6784f8ff48190a070888786f6a989 completed April 20, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0869656ae4819084679d901249c2f7 completed May 16, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0869cc7308819087028f44af0386c2 completed May 16, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a086ab4c0a08190a1cd3ca5ea07512f completed May 16, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:24 a.m.