Triple

T1056687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Whitehurst E22810 entity
Predicate educatedBy P335 FINISHED
Object Thomas Whitehurst
Thomas Whitehurst was an educator and mentor known for teaching and influencing the English clockmaker and scientist John Whitehurst.
E160284 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: Thomas Whitehurst | Statement: [John Whitehurst, educatedBy, Thomas Whitehurst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Whitehurst
Context triple: [John Whitehurst, educatedBy, Thomas Whitehurst]
  • A. William Tracy
    William Tracy was an American film actor best known for his comedic roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood movies.
  • B. Leon Moisseiff
    Leon Moisseiff was a prominent early 20th-century civil engineer known for pioneering deflection theory in suspension bridge design and contributing to several major American bridges.
  • C. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • D. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • E. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • 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: Thomas Whitehurst
Triple: [John Whitehurst, educatedBy, Thomas Whitehurst]
Generated description
Thomas Whitehurst was an educator and mentor known for teaching and influencing the English clockmaker and scientist John Whitehurst.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Whitehurst
Target entity description: Thomas Whitehurst was an educator and mentor known for teaching and influencing the English clockmaker and scientist John Whitehurst.
  • A. William Tracy
    William Tracy was an American film actor best known for his comedic roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood movies.
  • B. Leon Moisseiff
    Leon Moisseiff was a prominent early 20th-century civil engineer known for pioneering deflection theory in suspension bridge design and contributing to several major American bridges.
  • C. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • D. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • E. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • 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_69a493dada0481909c43649f9843ea91 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8da80dc8190b79beaf509910725 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde0311d88190a3cd04c7e00253e2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acdfabfd3c8190960d8621b49284a8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace0ea9d1c8190a73ed43b0a7bbd2f completed March 8, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.