Triple

T1063566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Oscillation E22959 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object Gilbert Walker
Gilbert Walker was a British physicist and statistician best known for identifying and characterizing the Southern Oscillation, a key component of global climate variability.
E123907 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: Gilbert Walker | Statement: [Southern Oscillation, discoveredBy, Gilbert Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gilbert Walker
Context triple: [Southern Oscillation, discoveredBy, Gilbert Walker]
  • A. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • B. William Gosse
    William Gosse was a 19th-century British-born Australian explorer best known for being the first European to document and name Uluru (then Ayers Rock) during his expeditions in central Australia.
  • C. Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.
    Ninian Joseph Yule Jr., better known as Mickey Rooney, was a prolific American actor and entertainer whose career spanned nine decades across film, television, stage, and radio.
  • D. Robert FitzRoy
    Robert FitzRoy was a 19th-century British naval officer, hydrographer, and meteorologist best known for captaining HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage and for pioneering modern weather forecasting.
  • E. Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • 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: Gilbert Walker
Triple: [Southern Oscillation, discoveredBy, Gilbert Walker]
Generated description
Gilbert Walker was a British physicist and statistician best known for identifying and characterizing the Southern Oscillation, a key component of global climate variability.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gilbert Walker
Target entity description: Gilbert Walker was a British physicist and statistician best known for identifying and characterizing the Southern Oscillation, a key component of global climate variability.
  • A. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • B. William Gosse
    William Gosse was a 19th-century British-born Australian explorer best known for being the first European to document and name Uluru (then Ayers Rock) during his expeditions in central Australia.
  • C. Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.
    Ninian Joseph Yule Jr., better known as Mickey Rooney, was a prolific American actor and entertainer whose career spanned nine decades across film, television, stage, and radio.
  • D. Robert FitzRoy
    Robert FitzRoy was a 19th-century British naval officer, hydrographer, and meteorologist best known for captaining HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage and for pioneering modern weather forecasting.
  • E. Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • 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_69a4b8f85cc08190ae03ac6c84936cc5 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac42a14b548190a796e49c545c9a9e completed March 7, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4311f7f08190ae86aacb7f2103d7 completed March 7, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac43891ed88190a5b8b51341e98929 completed March 7, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.