Triple

T10940030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Braidwood, Illinois E258443 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James Braidwood
James Braidwood was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish firefighter and the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment, widely regarded as a founder of modern firefighting techniques.
 E895292 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: James Braidwood | Statement: [Braidwood, Illinois, namedAfter, James Braidwood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Braidwood
Context triple: [Braidwood, Illinois, namedAfter, James Braidwood]
  • A. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • B. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • C. Alexander Crawford
    Alexander Crawford is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Crawford surname.
  • D. Alexander Smith
    Alexander Smith was the alias of John Adams, the last surviving Bounty mutineer who became a leader of the Pitcairn Island community.
  • E. William Ritchie
    William Ritchie was a Scottish newspaper proprietor and editor best known for co-founding and shaping the influential Edinburgh-based newspaper The Scotsman in the early 19th century.
  • 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: James Braidwood
Triple: [Braidwood, Illinois, namedAfter, James Braidwood]
Generated description
James Braidwood was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish firefighter and the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment, widely regarded as a founder of modern firefighting techniques.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Braidwood
Target entity description: James Braidwood was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish firefighter and the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment, widely regarded as a founder of modern firefighting techniques.
  • A. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • B. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • C. Alexander Crawford
    Alexander Crawford is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Crawford surname.
  • D. Alexander Smith
    Alexander Smith was the alias of John Adams, the last surviving Bounty mutineer who became a leader of the Pitcairn Island community.
  • E. William Ritchie
    William Ritchie was a Scottish newspaper proprietor and editor best known for co-founding and shaping the influential Edinburgh-based newspaper The Scotsman in the early 19th century.
  • 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_69d6aa8769b4819082bfe5e61b9017f0 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d770c1389881909341170984211810 completed April 9, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e23c0e940081908c84ea4cf3b877fc completed April 17, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e24541cbb481908f14a9cb2787c118 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e248f48dc88190af9491e8cdc4a532 completed April 17, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.