Triple

T12103420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aswan Low Dam E288243 entity
Predicate designedBy P184 FINISHED
Object William Willcocks
William Willcocks was a British civil engineer renowned for his pioneering work on major irrigation and dam projects in Egypt and the Middle East.
E966119 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 Willcocks | Statement: [Aswan Low Dam, designedBy, William Willcocks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Willcocks
Context triple: [Aswan Low Dam, designedBy, William Willcocks]
  • A. John Wheelwright
    John Wheelwright was a 17th-century Puritan clergyman and religious dissenter known for his role in the Antinomian Controversy and for establishing early settlements in New England.
  • B. John Wheelwright
    John Wheelwright is the reflective, often self-doubting narrator of John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," whose life is profoundly shaped by his intense childhood friendship with the title character.
  • C. Frederic C. Williams
    Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
  • D. William Dewhurst
    William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
  • E. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • 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 Willcocks
Triple: [Aswan Low Dam, designedBy, William Willcocks]
Generated description
William Willcocks was a British civil engineer renowned for his pioneering work on major irrigation and dam projects in Egypt and the Middle East.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Willcocks
Target entity description: William Willcocks was a British civil engineer renowned for his pioneering work on major irrigation and dam projects in Egypt and the Middle East.
  • A. John Wheelwright
    John Wheelwright was a 17th-century Puritan clergyman and religious dissenter known for his role in the Antinomian Controversy and for establishing early settlements in New England.
  • B. John Wheelwright
    John Wheelwright is the reflective, often self-doubting narrator of John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," whose life is profoundly shaped by his intense childhood friendship with the title character.
  • C. Frederic C. Williams
    Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
  • D. William Dewhurst
    William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
  • E. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915568b9881909fc9edacefb86409 completed April 10, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f677039481908f14fa12b9b86910 completed May 2, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b6769481909d0308c8f77b2ef3 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f601ef0a9c8190ac922562a8856def completed May 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:48 p.m.