Triple

T1220480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Murdock E26209 entity
Predicate alternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object William Murdoch
William Murdoch was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering gas lighting and contributing key innovations to early steam engine technology.
E139966 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 Murdoch | Statement: [William Murdock, alternativeName, William Murdoch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Murdoch
Context triple: [William Murdock, alternativeName, William Murdoch]
  • A. Mr Hudson
    Mr Hudson is a British singer, songwriter, and producer known for his collaborations with artists like Kanye West and his blend of pop, R&B, and electronic influences.
  • B. Sir John Trevor
    Sir John Trevor was a prominent 17th-century English politician and royal official who held several high offices under the Stuart monarchy.
  • C. Raymond Collishaw
    Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
  • D. Bertram Ramsay
    Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
  • E. Nevil Macready
    Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
  • 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 Murdoch
Triple: [William Murdock, alternativeName, William Murdoch]
Generated description
William Murdoch was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering gas lighting and contributing key innovations to early steam engine technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Murdoch
Target entity description: William Murdoch was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering gas lighting and contributing key innovations to early steam engine technology.
  • A. Mr Hudson
    Mr Hudson is a British singer, songwriter, and producer known for his collaborations with artists like Kanye West and his blend of pop, R&B, and electronic influences.
  • B. Sir John Trevor
    Sir John Trevor was a prominent 17th-century English politician and royal official who held several high offices under the Stuart monarchy.
  • C. Raymond Collishaw
    Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
  • D. Bertram Ramsay
    Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
  • E. Nevil Macready
    Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be1ead088190bf44dc6ab1edf18b completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8322425c81909cc206b122416c43 completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac83de917c8190adf5effc6ecebeb4 completed March 7, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac84c392a08190854da8405c0252b2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.