Triple
T10411265
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Railway Series |
E245395
|
entity |
| Predicate | publisher |
P29
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Edmund Ward
Edmund Ward was a British publishing company best known for producing early editions of Rev. W. Awdry’s "The Railway Series" books about Thomas the Tank Engine.
|
E862028
|
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: Edmund Ward | Statement: [The Railway Series, publisher, Edmund Ward]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Ward Context triple: [The Railway Series, publisher, Edmund Ward]
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A.
William Sandys
William Sandys was a 19th-century English antiquarian and collector of Christmas carols, noted for helping to popularize traditional songs such as "The First Noël."
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B.
John Crome
John Crome was an English landscape painter and leading figure of the early 19th-century Norwich School, noted for his naturalistic depictions of the English countryside.
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C.
William Dyce
William Dyce was a 19th-century Scottish painter and influential art educator associated with the early Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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D.
Edward Nesfield
Edward Nesfield is a member of the Nesfield family, related to the noted 19th-century English landscape architect W. A. Nesfield.
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E.
Samuel Milles
Samuel Milles is a person notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Milles.
- 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: Edmund Ward Triple: [The Railway Series, publisher, Edmund Ward]
Generated description
Edmund Ward was a British publishing company best known for producing early editions of Rev. W. Awdry’s "The Railway Series" books about Thomas the Tank Engine.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Ward Target entity description: Edmund Ward was a British publishing company best known for producing early editions of Rev. W. Awdry’s "The Railway Series" books about Thomas the Tank Engine.
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A.
William Sandys
William Sandys was a 19th-century English antiquarian and collector of Christmas carols, noted for helping to popularize traditional songs such as "The First Noël."
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B.
John Crome
John Crome was an English landscape painter and leading figure of the early 19th-century Norwich School, noted for his naturalistic depictions of the English countryside.
-
C.
William Dyce
William Dyce was a 19th-century Scottish painter and influential art educator associated with the early Pre-Raphaelite movement.
-
D.
Edward Nesfield
Edward Nesfield is a member of the Nesfield family, related to the noted 19th-century English landscape architect W. A. Nesfield.
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E.
Samuel Milles
Samuel Milles is a person notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Milles.
- 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4e9fc72d081908d81c71133973daf |
completed | April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d7fbfae96c8190ac496e9a1158afe4 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d859e40bf88190a6dc8deed3049d31 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.