Triple

T10892837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gedney E257224 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Gedney
William Gedney was an American photographer known for his intimate, quietly observational black-and-white images documenting everyday life in mid-20th-century America and India.
E904894 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: William Gedney | Statement: [Gedney, hasNotableBearer, William Gedney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gedney
Context triple: [Gedney, hasNotableBearer, William Gedney]
  • A. Charles Gough
    Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
  • B. George Denham
    George Denham is a central character in the 1959 romantic comedy film "It Happened to Jane," serving as Jane Osgood’s supportive friend and love interest as she battles a powerful railroad company.
  • C. Edward Pritchard Gee
    Edward Pritchard Gee was a British naturalist and tea planter in India and Bhutan known for his wildlife surveys and conservation work, particularly in relation to primates such as the golden langur.
  • D. Edward Maltby
    Edward Maltby was a 19th-century English clergyman who served as Bishop of Chichester and later Bishop of Durham in the Church of England.
  • E. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • 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: William Gedney
Triple: [Gedney, hasNotableBearer, William Gedney]
Generated description
William Gedney was an American photographer known for his intimate, quietly observational black-and-white images documenting everyday life in mid-20th-century America and India.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gedney
Target entity description: William Gedney was an American photographer known for his intimate, quietly observational black-and-white images documenting everyday life in mid-20th-century America and India.
  • A. Charles Gough
    Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
  • B. George Denham
    George Denham is a central character in the 1959 romantic comedy film "It Happened to Jane," serving as Jane Osgood’s supportive friend and love interest as she battles a powerful railroad company.
  • C. Edward Pritchard Gee
    Edward Pritchard Gee was a British naturalist and tea planter in India and Bhutan known for his wildlife surveys and conservation work, particularly in relation to primates such as the golden langur.
  • D. Edward Maltby
    Edward Maltby was a 19th-century English clergyman who served as Bishop of Chichester and later Bishop of Durham in the Church of England.
  • E. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • 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_69d6aa8550c8819095508a2ed9acf3db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d75206354881908b148f2df3938513 completed April 9, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e6e88e508190a1bcd90cc67cbbbf completed April 18, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f01f9d048190b553184f0f6ce29c completed April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f3fef9308190b0354ed436c32e4c completed April 18, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:21 p.m.