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]
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A.
William Humphries
William Humphries is best known as the father of former NBA player Kris Humphries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.