Triple

T10233660
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governors of East India Company presidencies E243405 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object John Napier
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and theologian best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
E109737 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: John Napier | Statement: [Governors of East India Company presidencies, officeHeldBy, John Napier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Napier
Context triple: [Governors of East India Company presidencies, officeHeldBy, John Napier]
  • A. John Napier
    John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • B. John Napier
    John Napier is a renowned British theatre designer celebrated for his innovative and visually striking stage and costume designs for major West End and Broadway productions.
  • C. Henry Briggs
    Henry Briggs was an English mathematician best known for pioneering the widespread use of common (base-10) logarithms, greatly simplifying complex calculations in the early 17th century.
  • D. John Wallis
    John Wallis was a 17th-century English mathematician and clergyman known for his contributions to calculus, analytic geometry, and the introduction of the infinity symbol (∞).
  • E. Colin Maclaurin
    Colin Maclaurin was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician known for his significant contributions to calculus and geometry, including the development of the Maclaurin series.
  • 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: John Napier
Triple: [Governors of East India Company presidencies, officeHeldBy, John Napier]
Generated description
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and theologian best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Napier
Target entity description: John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and theologian best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • A. John Napier chosen
    John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • B. John Napier
    John Napier is a renowned British theatre designer celebrated for his innovative and visually striking stage and costume designs for major West End and Broadway productions.
  • C. Henry Briggs
    Henry Briggs was an English mathematician best known for pioneering the widespread use of common (base-10) logarithms, greatly simplifying complex calculations in the early 17th century.
  • D. John Wallis
    John Wallis was a 17th-century English mathematician and clergyman known for his contributions to calculus, analytic geometry, and the introduction of the infinity symbol (∞).
  • E. Colin Maclaurin
    Colin Maclaurin was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician known for his significant contributions to calculus and geometry, including the development of the Maclaurin series.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d20cd8708190ba42752597d62008 completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f74c66048190a0ba1cba593cccb5 completed April 9, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2ea97081908395048218c0592b completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fcb5dc4c8190944a423a9d16a4b8 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:21 a.m.