Triple

T9147930
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clifford E219505 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher known for his work on geometric algebra and for the philosophical concept of "Clifford's principle" about the ethics of belief.
E781141 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: William Kingdon Clifford | Statement: [Clifford, hasNotableBearer, William Kingdon Clifford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Kingdon Clifford
Context triple: [Clifford, hasNotableBearer, William Kingdon Clifford]
  • A. Sir William Rouse Ball
    Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
  • B. William Rowan Hamilton
    William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
  • C. Joseph Larmor
    Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
  • D. Arthur Cayley
    Arthur Cayley was a 19th-century British mathematician renowned for his foundational work in matrix theory and abstract algebra.
  • E. Horace Lamb
    Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
  • 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: William Kingdon Clifford
Triple: [Clifford, hasNotableBearer, William Kingdon Clifford]
Generated description
William Kingdon Clifford was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher known for his work on geometric algebra and for the philosophical concept of "Clifford's principle" about the ethics of belief.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Kingdon Clifford
Target entity description: William Kingdon Clifford was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher known for his work on geometric algebra and for the philosophical concept of "Clifford's principle" about the ethics of belief.
  • A. Sir William Rouse Ball
    Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
  • B. William Rowan Hamilton
    William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
  • C. Joseph Larmor
    Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
  • D. Arthur Cayley
    Arthur Cayley was a 19th-century British mathematician renowned for his foundational work in matrix theory and abstract algebra.
  • E. Horace Lamb
    Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
  • 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_69ca83e121dc81909912bd66953081c5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca91a1fd08190a5bb3d9280439b09 completed April 1, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0482995cc81909bfc202cbab7f8a1 completed April 3, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0496672a881909c1ac91a7ec1a2a1 completed April 3, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d04a35451881909dfe6795b743b026 completed April 3, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:20 p.m.