Triple

T20464843
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Sherburne E502019 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Richard Sampson
Richard Sampson was a 16th-century English clergyman, canon lawyer, and bishop who played a notable role in the ecclesiastical politics of Henry VIII’s reign.
 E1433051 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: Richard Sampson | Statement: [Robert Sherburne, successor, Richard Sampson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Sampson
Context triple: [Robert Sherburne, successor, Richard Sampson]
  • A. Ralph Sampson
    Ralph Sampson is a Hall of Fame American basketball center best known as a dominant 7-foot-4 star in the 1980s NBA, particularly for his early success and twin-towers partnership with Hakeem Olajuwon.
  • B. Joe Harris
    Joe Harris is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry, particularly in the development of Brill–Noether theory and the geometry of algebraic curves.
  • C. Joe Harris
    Joe Harris is an American professional basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s elite three-point shooters.
  • D. Anthony Mason
    Anthony Mason was a rugged, versatile forward best known for his physical defense, ball-handling, and key role on the mid-1990s New York Knicks.
  • E. Thomas Robinson
    Thomas Robinson was the son of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
  • 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: Richard Sampson
Triple: [Robert Sherburne, successor, Richard Sampson]
Generated description
Richard Sampson was a 16th-century English clergyman, canon lawyer, and bishop who played a notable role in the ecclesiastical politics of Henry VIII’s reign.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Sampson
Target entity description: Richard Sampson was a 16th-century English clergyman, canon lawyer, and bishop who played a notable role in the ecclesiastical politics of Henry VIII’s reign.
  • A. Ralph Sampson
    Ralph Sampson is a Hall of Fame American basketball center best known as a dominant 7-foot-4 star in the 1980s NBA, particularly for his early success and twin-towers partnership with Hakeem Olajuwon.
  • B. Joe Harris
    Joe Harris is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry, particularly in the development of Brill–Noether theory and the geometry of algebraic curves.
  • C. Joe Harris
    Joe Harris is an American professional basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s elite three-point shooters.
  • D. Anthony Mason
    Anthony Mason was a rugged, versatile forward best known for his physical defense, ball-handling, and key role on the mid-1990s New York Knicks.
  • E. Thomas Robinson
    Thomas Robinson was the son of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
  • 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_69e0b4ad4940819098cf2ff6413574e5 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e696a9489081908990c691a36ba04d completed April 20, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a088b188f208190a8cb7850c209f0de completed May 16, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088c8a61cc8190a6c1d4e09257ddfe completed May 16, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088cf2bb688190b407b12013dd4aa0 completed May 16, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:33 a.m.