Triple

T11109787
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow E262723 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Spang
William Spang was a Scottish physician and medical educator known for helping establish what became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
E905620 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 Spang | Statement: [Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, foundedBy, William Spang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Spang
Context triple: [Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, foundedBy, William Spang]
  • A. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • B. William Edmunds
    William Edmunds was an Italian-born American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. William Molineux
    William Molineux was a prominent Boston merchant and radical patriot leader who played a key organizing role in pre-Revolutionary protests against British authority.
  • D. Charles Hopkinson
    Charles Hopkinson was an American portrait and landscape painter known for his depictions of prominent early 20th-century figures and his involvement in the Boston art scene.
  • E. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • 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 Spang
Triple: [Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, foundedBy, William Spang]
Generated description
William Spang was a Scottish physician and medical educator known for helping establish what became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Spang
Target entity description: William Spang was a Scottish physician and medical educator known for helping establish what became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
  • A. William Humphries
    William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
  • B. William Edmunds
    William Edmunds was an Italian-born American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. William Molineux
    William Molineux was a prominent Boston merchant and radical patriot leader who played a key organizing role in pre-Revolutionary protests against British authority.
  • D. Charles Hopkinson
    Charles Hopkinson was an American portrait and landscape painter known for his depictions of prominent early 20th-century figures and his involvement in the Boston art scene.
  • E. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • 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_69d6aa9b46cc8190b19f9f0cc45bf322 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79a6896c0819082685b5b4600d158 completed April 9, 2026, 12:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e42d759bc88190b670c373f3647a41 completed April 19, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4307baca48190bbf82f8235d7e2c7 completed April 19, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4375eaf448190a17f8df1e83145e0 completed April 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.