Triple

T11584257
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject HMS Beagle E274709 entity
Predicate captain P884 FINISHED
Object John Clements Wickham
John Clements Wickham was a British naval officer and explorer best known for his role in surveying voyages, including those associated with Charles Darwin’s famous expedition.
E934883 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: John Clements Wickham | Statement: [HMS Beagle, captain, John Clements Wickham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Clements Wickham
Context triple: [HMS Beagle, captain, John Clements Wickham]
  • A. George Sydenham Clarke
    George Sydenham Clarke was a British colonial administrator and military engineer who served in several high-ranking imperial posts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Francis Wenham
    Francis Wenham was a 19th-century British engineer and early aeronautical pioneer who played a key role in the development of aviation theory and institutions.
  • C. Thomas Gardiner
    Thomas Gardiner was a founder of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, helping establish one of the most influential daily papers in the United States.
  • D. Guy Woolford
    Guy Woolford is the businessman who founded Equifax Inc., one of the major consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States.
  • E. Jud Heathcote
    Jud Heathcote was an American college basketball coach best known for leading Michigan State to the 1979 NCAA championship with Magic Johnson and building the program into a national power.
  • 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: John Clements Wickham
Triple: [HMS Beagle, captain, John Clements Wickham]
Generated description
John Clements Wickham was a British naval officer and explorer best known for his role in surveying voyages, including those associated with Charles Darwin’s famous expedition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Clements Wickham
Target entity description: John Clements Wickham was a British naval officer and explorer best known for his role in surveying voyages, including those associated with Charles Darwin’s famous expedition.
  • A. George Sydenham Clarke
    George Sydenham Clarke was a British colonial administrator and military engineer who served in several high-ranking imperial posts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Francis Wenham
    Francis Wenham was a 19th-century British engineer and early aeronautical pioneer who played a key role in the development of aviation theory and institutions.
  • C. Thomas Gardiner
    Thomas Gardiner was a founder of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, helping establish one of the most influential daily papers in the United States.
  • D. Guy Woolford
    Guy Woolford is the businessman who founded Equifax Inc., one of the major consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States.
  • E. Jud Heathcote
    Jud Heathcote was an American college basketball coach best known for leading Michigan State to the 1979 NCAA championship with Magic Johnson and building the program into a national power.
  • 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_69d6aae6b14c81908dc5a74bad7591f9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8904db5748190ae5f10ae86ccdf46 completed April 10, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e7142d442c8190a48372e0e17db517 completed April 21, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e720fb192881909c129f93c8b88f42 completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e7233efb6c81909dbf1aef080f5598 completed April 21, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.