Triple

T11100823
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maurice Wilkes E262498 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object EDSAC
EDSAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic computers, built at the University of Cambridge in the late 1940s and used primarily for scientific and mathematical research.
E904646 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: EDSAC | Statement: [Maurice Wilkes, notableWork, EDSAC]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: EDSAC
Context triple: [Maurice Wilkes, notableWork, EDSAC]
  • A. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • B. Ferranti Mark I computer
    The Ferranti Mark I computer was one of the world’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computers, developed in the early 1950s from the Manchester Mark I design.
  • C. ORDVAC
    ORDVAC was an early stored-program electronic computer built for the U.S. Army that helped pioneer modern computer architecture and numerical computation.
  • D. UNIVAC I
    UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
  • E. IBM 704
    The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer 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: EDSAC
Triple: [Maurice Wilkes, notableWork, EDSAC]
Generated description
EDSAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic computers, built at the University of Cambridge in the late 1940s and used primarily for scientific and mathematical research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: EDSAC
Target entity description: EDSAC was one of the earliest stored-program electronic computers, built at the University of Cambridge in the late 1940s and used primarily for scientific and mathematical research.
  • A. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • B. Ferranti Mark I computer
    The Ferranti Mark I computer was one of the world’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computers, developed in the early 1950s from the Manchester Mark I design.
  • C. ORDVAC
    ORDVAC was an early stored-program electronic computer built for the U.S. Army that helped pioneer modern computer architecture and numerical computation.
  • D. UNIVAC I
    UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
  • E. IBM 704
    The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer 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_69d6aa9a40d88190a373e2c7e48285db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79a29ee6c819092bc0da3f9255389 completed April 9, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e7f9b46881909761ed448fa5ce6e completed April 18, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2cc9b7c8190bb5fd89f239917cf completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f4a37b6c81908ca63270d82579ae completed April 18, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.