Triple

T23512399
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Caroline Southwood Smith E572460 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Southwood Smith
Thomas Southwood Smith was a 19th-century English physician and prominent sanitary reformer known for his influential work on public health and social medicine.
E1591518 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: Thomas Southwood Smith | Statement: [Caroline Southwood Smith, father, Thomas Southwood Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Southwood Smith
Context triple: [Caroline Southwood Smith, father, Thomas Southwood Smith]
  • A. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • B. Joseph Prestwich
    Joseph Prestwich was a 19th-century British geologist renowned for his pioneering work in stratigraphy and the study of Tertiary and Quaternary deposits.
  • C. George Lapworth
    George Lapworth was a British geologist known for his pioneering work in stratigraphy and the use of graptolites to date and correlate Paleozoic rock formations.
  • D. Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker was a prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer who served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close collaborator of Charles Darwin.
  • E. George Henry Falkiner Nuttall
    George Henry Falkiner Nuttall was a British-American bacteriologist and parasitologist known for his pioneering work in immunology, vector-borne diseases, and the role of insects in disease transmission.
  • 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: Thomas Southwood Smith
Triple: [Caroline Southwood Smith, father, Thomas Southwood Smith]
Generated description
Thomas Southwood Smith was a 19th-century English physician and prominent sanitary reformer known for his influential work on public health and social medicine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Southwood Smith
Target entity description: Thomas Southwood Smith was a 19th-century English physician and prominent sanitary reformer known for his influential work on public health and social medicine.
  • A. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • B. Joseph Prestwich
    Joseph Prestwich was a 19th-century British geologist renowned for his pioneering work in stratigraphy and the study of Tertiary and Quaternary deposits.
  • C. George Lapworth
    George Lapworth was a British geologist known for his pioneering work in stratigraphy and the use of graptolites to date and correlate Paleozoic rock formations.
  • D. Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker was a prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer who served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close collaborator of Charles Darwin.
  • E. George Henry Falkiner Nuttall
    George Henry Falkiner Nuttall was a British-American bacteriologist and parasitologist known for his pioneering work in immunology, vector-borne diseases, and the role of insects in disease transmission.
  • 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_69e245b5e4208190bac8a6509867e394 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1aa7f583881909e78e8fe2e6e25fe completed April 29, 2026, 6:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf46f18c81908dfe27a37d667f18 completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce1e95ad48190bcf2f07f169b8276 completed May 19, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce26bb9bc8190826a14b9c894bfd9 completed May 19, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:07 p.m.