Triple

T10159880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Worboys road sign system E233860 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Herbert Worboys
Herbert Worboys was a British official and designer best known for creating the Worboys Committee’s modern road sign system that transformed traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
E845488 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: Herbert Worboys | Statement: [Worboys road sign system, namedAfter, Herbert Worboys]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Worboys
Context triple: [Worboys road sign system, namedAfter, Herbert Worboys]
  • A. Cecil Balmond
    Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
  • B. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • C. Stephen Woolley
    Stephen Woolley is a British film producer and director best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including collaborations with director Neil Jordan.
  • D. Colin St John Wilson
    Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Herbert Worboys
Triple: [Worboys road sign system, namedAfter, Herbert Worboys]
Generated description
Herbert Worboys was a British official and designer best known for creating the Worboys Committee’s modern road sign system that transformed traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Worboys
Target entity description: Herbert Worboys was a British official and designer best known for creating the Worboys Committee’s modern road sign system that transformed traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
  • A. Cecil Balmond
    Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
  • B. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • C. Stephen Woolley
    Stephen Woolley is a British film producer and director best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including collaborations with director Neil Jordan.
  • D. Colin St John Wilson
    Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca848e80748190b91d1e04d35512c7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdec5831e481909b48fdfa8f1c670b completed April 2, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d300b7b3108190a8e7581193c322be completed April 6, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d30254aabc8190966a4398c59a851e completed April 6, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d30305924c8190998cbefa372dca9a completed April 6, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:09 p.m.