Triple
T10411274
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Railway Series |
E245395
|
entity |
| Predicate | createdBy |
P806
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Wilbert Vere Awdry |
E862020
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Wilbert Vere Awdry | Statement: [The Railway Series, createdBy, Wilbert Vere Awdry]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilbert Vere Awdry Context triple: [The Railway Series, createdBy, Wilbert Vere Awdry]
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A.
Wilbert Vere Awdry
chosen
Wilbert Vere Awdry was an English clergyman and children's author best known for creating Thomas the Tank Engine and the wider world of The Railway Series.
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B.
Christopher Awdry
Christopher Awdry is a British writer best known for continuing his father Rev. W. Awdry’s famous Railway Series of children's books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and other railway characters.
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C.
Dudley Simpson
Dudley Simpson was an Australian composer best known for his prolific and influential music scores for the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Nigel Gresley
Nigel Gresley was a renowned British steam locomotive engineer best known for designing record-breaking express engines such as the LNER Class A4 Mallard.
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E.
George Ivatt
George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d89f7bfce881908239cbb0915a5b81 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 6:58 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.