Triple

T22168955
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Director of the British Museum E547867 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson was a British palaeographer and scholar who became a leading authority on medieval manuscripts and served as a prominent cultural figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.
E1523830 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: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson | Statement: [Director of the British Museum, positionHeldBy, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
Context triple: [Director of the British Museum, positionHeldBy, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson]
  • A. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Sir Edmund Hirst
    Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • C. Sir Denys Wilkinson
    Sir Denys Wilkinson was a distinguished British nuclear physicist and academic leader known for his influential research in particle physics and his senior roles in UK higher education.
  • D. Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
    Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
  • E. Edwin Brothertoft
    Edwin Brothertoft is a historical novel by American writer Theodore Winthrop, known for its vivid portrayal of Revolutionary-era America.
  • 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: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
Triple: [Director of the British Museum, positionHeldBy, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson]
Generated description
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson was a British palaeographer and scholar who became a leading authority on medieval manuscripts and served as a prominent cultural figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
Target entity description: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson was a British palaeographer and scholar who became a leading authority on medieval manuscripts and served as a prominent cultural figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.
  • A. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Sir Edmund Hirst
    Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • C. Sir Denys Wilkinson
    Sir Denys Wilkinson was a distinguished British nuclear physicist and academic leader known for his influential research in particle physics and his senior roles in UK higher education.
  • D. Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
    Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
  • E. Edwin Brothertoft
    Edwin Brothertoft is a historical novel by American writer Theodore Winthrop, known for its vivid portrayal of Revolutionary-era America.
  • 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_69e11e3c4c5c81908d336165816b12e0 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12a6721e8819081d732df2691f4a4 completed April 28, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a9ec0dc408190bd15bbbf0f5a79d9 completed May 18, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aa2a6e9fc819086e7fac0c1214dee completed May 18, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa3b7b23c8190bf50afa02a75f326 completed May 18, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:34 p.m.