Triple

T9573037
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Turner E230972 entity
Predicate sharesNameWith P15168 FINISHED
Object William Turner (engineer)
William Turner (engineer) was a British civil engineer known for his contributions to 19th-century railway and infrastructure projects.
 E807697 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 Turner (engineer) | Statement: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (engineer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Turner (engineer)
Context triple: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (engineer)]
  • A. John Whittington
    John Whittington is a screenwriter known for his work on animated and superhero films, including DC League of Super-Pets.
  • B. William Madocks
    William Madocks was a Welsh landowner, politician, and entrepreneur best known for reclaiming land in North Wales and founding the town of Porthmadog through his ambitious coastal engineering projects.
  • C. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Edmund Blacket
    Edmund Blacket was a prominent 19th-century English-born Australian architect best known for shaping Sydney’s Gothic Revival cityscape through numerous churches and public buildings.
  • E. William Rees
    William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
  • 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 Turner (engineer)
Triple: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (engineer)]
Generated description
William Turner (engineer) was a British civil engineer known for his contributions to 19th-century railway and infrastructure projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Turner (engineer)
Target entity description: William Turner (engineer) was a British civil engineer known for his contributions to 19th-century railway and infrastructure projects.
  • A. John Whittington
    John Whittington is a screenwriter known for his work on animated and superhero films, including DC League of Super-Pets.
  • B. William Madocks
    William Madocks was a Welsh landowner, politician, and entrepreneur best known for reclaiming land in North Wales and founding the town of Porthmadog through his ambitious coastal engineering projects.
  • C. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Edmund Blacket
    Edmund Blacket was a prominent 19th-century English-born Australian architect best known for shaping Sydney’s Gothic Revival cityscape through numerous churches and public buildings.
  • E. William Rees
    William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd998d79cc8190b94e5953915a5fa4 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152bf5c548190b6c33cc49e418ef7 completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d15404e9508190b5d9f1239586ab9a completed April 4, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1546a503c81908edc9588adabc172 completed April 4, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.