Triple

T21711429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Halliday E535915 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object J. R. Firth
J. R. Firth was a pioneering British linguist known for his work in prosody, context-based meaning, and for laying foundations later developed in systemic functional linguistics.
E1499681 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: J. R. Firth | Statement: [Michael Halliday, doctoralAdvisor, J. R. Firth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. R. Firth
Context triple: [Michael Halliday, doctoralAdvisor, J. R. Firth]
  • A. Francis Sadleir
    Francis Sadleir was a 19th-century Irish academic and clergyman who served as a professor and later provost of Trinity College Dublin.
  • B. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • C. E. F. N. Jephcott
    E. F. N. Jephcott was a British translator best known for his influential English translations of works by critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno.
  • D. Ernst Robinson
    Ernst Robinson is one of the adventurous sons in the classic family castaway story "Swiss Family Robinson," portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful young man.
  • E. Henry Ittleson
    Henry Ittleson was an American financier and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the commercial finance company CIT Group.
  • 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: J. R. Firth
Triple: [Michael Halliday, doctoralAdvisor, J. R. Firth]
Generated description
J. R. Firth was a pioneering British linguist known for his work in prosody, context-based meaning, and for laying foundations later developed in systemic functional linguistics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. R. Firth
Target entity description: J. R. Firth was a pioneering British linguist known for his work in prosody, context-based meaning, and for laying foundations later developed in systemic functional linguistics.
  • A. Francis Sadleir
    Francis Sadleir was a 19th-century Irish academic and clergyman who served as a professor and later provost of Trinity College Dublin.
  • B. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • C. E. F. N. Jephcott
    E. F. N. Jephcott was a British translator best known for his influential English translations of works by critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno.
  • D. Ernst Robinson
    Ernst Robinson is one of the adventurous sons in the classic family castaway story "Swiss Family Robinson," portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful young man.
  • E. Henry Ittleson
    Henry Ittleson was an American financier and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the commercial finance company CIT Group.
  • 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_69e0c46b44c0819088ab883ebd44e0e8 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69efb53450108190ba1c9e3cc3a0ab89 completed April 27, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a2ec80c508190b46dcd4db623f900 completed May 17, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a30ab32f08190b49005a37ce281b6 completed May 17, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a319460888190b74341c50719ac80 completed May 17, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:46 p.m.