Triple
T10900537
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | London, Brighton and South Coast Railway |
E257426
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLocomotiveDesigner |
P82513
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
R. J. Billinton
R. J. Billinton was a prominent late-19th-century British locomotive engineer who served as Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
|
E893317
|
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: R. J. Billinton | Statement: [London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, notableLocomotiveDesigner, R. J. Billinton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. J. Billinton Context triple: [London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, notableLocomotiveDesigner, R. J. Billinton]
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A.
R. S. McLaughlin
R. S. McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
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B.
W.J. Rennison
W.J. Rennison was an architect known for designing the Gaiety Theatre.
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C.
R. W. Elliott
R. W. Elliott was a South Carolina school board official known for his role as a defendant in the landmark desegregation case Briggs v. Elliott, one of the cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
J. Duncan Smith
J. Duncan Smith is an American media executive and businessman, known as one of the sons of television broadcasting pioneer Julian Sinclair Smith.
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E.
R. K. Pierson
R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
- 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: R. J. Billinton Triple: [London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, notableLocomotiveDesigner, R. J. Billinton]
Generated description
R. J. Billinton was a prominent late-19th-century British locomotive engineer who served as Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. J. Billinton Target entity description: R. J. Billinton was a prominent late-19th-century British locomotive engineer who served as Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
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A.
R. S. McLaughlin
R. S. McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
-
B.
W.J. Rennison
W.J. Rennison was an architect known for designing the Gaiety Theatre.
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C.
R. W. Elliott
R. W. Elliott was a South Carolina school board official known for his role as a defendant in the landmark desegregation case Briggs v. Elliott, one of the cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
-
D.
J. Duncan Smith
J. Duncan Smith is an American media executive and businessman, known as one of the sons of television broadcasting pioneer Julian Sinclair Smith.
-
E.
R. K. Pierson
R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
- 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_69d761a2f02881908b70be6499dd8d98 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:21 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e216c69b088190b8fa192cd8fe23ed |
completed | April 17, 2026, 11:17 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e21d860d288190855ffbe60df50df9 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e21f09be508190a7c497a7680cb59e |
completed | April 17, 2026, 11:52 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:22 p.m.