Triple

T1115904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Museum E11098 entity
Predicate formerDirector P10190 FINISHED
Object Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for his influential leadership of major cultural institutions and his work presenting world history through objects.
E128275 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: Neil MacGregor | Statement: [British Museum, formerDirector, Neil MacGregor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Neil MacGregor
Context triple: [British Museum, formerDirector, Neil MacGregor]
  • A. Martin Kemp
    Martin Kemp is an English musician and actor best known as the bassist of the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
  • B. John Julius Norwich
    John Julius Norwich was a British historian, travel writer, and television presenter renowned for his works on the history of Venice, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean world.
  • C. Philip Sherrard
    Philip Sherrard was a British scholar, theologian, and translator best known for his influential English translations of Eastern Orthodox spiritual and theological texts.
  • D. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
    Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
  • E. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • 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: Neil MacGregor
Triple: [British Museum, formerDirector, Neil MacGregor]
Generated description
Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for his influential leadership of major cultural institutions and his work presenting world history through objects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Neil MacGregor
Target entity description: Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for his influential leadership of major cultural institutions and his work presenting world history through objects.
  • A. Martin Kemp
    Martin Kemp is an English musician and actor best known as the bassist of the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
  • B. John Julius Norwich
    John Julius Norwich was a British historian, travel writer, and television presenter renowned for his works on the history of Venice, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean world.
  • C. Philip Sherrard
    Philip Sherrard was a British scholar, theologian, and translator best known for his influential English translations of Eastern Orthodox spiritual and theological texts.
  • D. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
    Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
  • E. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba2b550819081f8a100638d2fba completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac539783188190896ab66306697b1c completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac544fc41881908daff6b313622619 completed March 7, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5526679081909c9f7458bd316ff6 completed March 7, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.