Triple

T20507940
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St Peter’s School, York E503482 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object James Stirling (mathematician)
James Stirling was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician best known for Stirling's approximation in analysis and his contributions to the study of series and numerical methods.
 E1433776 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: James Stirling (mathematician) | Statement: [St Peter’s School, York, hasAlumni, James Stirling (mathematician)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Stirling (mathematician)
Context triple: [St Peter’s School, York, hasAlumni, James Stirling (mathematician)]
  • A. Sir James Stirling
    Sir James Stirling was a British naval officer and colonial administrator best known as the first Governor of Western Australia.
  • B. Christopher Zeeman
    Christopher Zeeman was a British mathematician renowned for his work in geometric topology and catastrophe theory, and for his influential role in popularizing mathematics.
  • C. Kenneth Falconer
    Kenneth Falconer was a pseudonym used by American science fiction writer Cyril M. Kornbluth.
  • D. Cecil Balmond
    Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
  • E. Richard Stannard
    Richard Stannard is a British pop music producer and songwriter best known for crafting hits for major acts like the Spice Girls and other chart-topping artists.
  • 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: James Stirling (mathematician)
Triple: [St Peter’s School, York, hasAlumni, James Stirling (mathematician)]
Generated description
James Stirling was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician best known for Stirling's approximation in analysis and his contributions to the study of series and numerical methods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Stirling (mathematician)
Target entity description: James Stirling was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician best known for Stirling's approximation in analysis and his contributions to the study of series and numerical methods.
  • A. Sir James Stirling
    Sir James Stirling was a British naval officer and colonial administrator best known as the first Governor of Western Australia.
  • B. Christopher Zeeman
    Christopher Zeeman was a British mathematician renowned for his work in geometric topology and catastrophe theory, and for his influential role in popularizing mathematics.
  • C. Kenneth Falconer
    Kenneth Falconer was a pseudonym used by American science fiction writer Cyril M. Kornbluth.
  • D. Cecil Balmond
    Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
  • E. Richard Stannard
    Richard Stannard is a British pop music producer and songwriter best known for crafting hits for major acts like the Spice Girls and other chart-topping artists.
  • 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_69e0b4b1e52c8190894281cf7e3283ab completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e69dc8f3c881908ed2e0257a057e73 completed April 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0893c4980c81909113b0e563acd8b8 completed May 16, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a089485ab8c819086ffe93a2756286a completed May 16, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0894f3be54819091e3305ee70c25f5 completed May 16, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:36 a.m.