Triple

T12128326
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford E288865 entity
Predicate endowmentBy P930 FINISHED
Object Thomas White
Thomas White was a benefactor whose endowment established the White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
E970474 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: Thomas White | Statement: [White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, endowmentBy, Thomas White]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas White
Context triple: [White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, endowmentBy, Thomas White]
  • A. Thomas White
    Thomas White was a notable figure significant enough in regional history or exploration that the White Pass in North America was named in his honor.
  • B. Thomas White
    Thomas White was a 17th-century English Roman Catholic bishop best known as one of the Seven Bishops who opposed James II’s Declaration of Indulgence.
  • C. Alexander White
    Alexander White was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • D. Thomas J. White
    Thomas J. White was an American philanthropist and businessman best known for bankrolling and co-founding the global health organization Partners In Health.
  • E. James Springer White
    James Springer White was a co-founder and early leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, known for his organizational and publishing work alongside his wife, Ellen G. White.
  • 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: Thomas White
Triple: [White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, endowmentBy, Thomas White]
Generated description
Thomas White was a benefactor whose endowment established the White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas White
Target entity description: Thomas White was a benefactor whose endowment established the White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
  • A. Thomas White
    Thomas White was a 17th-century English Roman Catholic bishop best known as one of the Seven Bishops who opposed James II’s Declaration of Indulgence.
  • B. Thomas White
    Thomas White was a notable figure significant enough in regional history or exploration that the White Pass in North America was named in his honor.
  • C. Alexander White
    Alexander White was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • D. Thomas J. White
    Thomas J. White was an American philanthropist and businessman best known for bankrolling and co-founding the global health organization Partners In Health.
  • E. James Springer White
    James Springer White was a co-founder and early leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, known for his organizational and publishing work alongside his wife, Ellen G. White.
  • 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_69d6ab4b5e4c81909950b17151eb0951 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9157ce6b88190b16592cc48244db3 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60a79dd148190835c2679fb2df3b1 completed May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60dbe4f788190a3b4be4b31cfbffa completed May 2, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60ee037bc8190be486e30e03031a7 completed May 2, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.