Triple

T12355578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patten E294602 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Patten (historian)
William Patten was a 16th-century English historian and government official best known for his detailed account of the 1547 Battle of Pinkie during the reign of Edward VI.
 E979896 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 Patten (historian) | Statement: [Patten, hasNotableBearer, William Patten (historian)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Patten (historian)
Context triple: [Patten, hasNotableBearer, William Patten (historian)]
  • A. Robert B. Bowler
    Robert B. Bowler was an American public official who served as the United States Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
  • B. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • C. Marshall Clagett
    Marshall Clagett was an American historian of science renowned for his influential scholarship on the history of medieval and early modern mathematics and physics.
  • D. William Petterson
    William Petterson is an actor known for his role in the film "From Hand to Mouth."
  • E. William Sewell
    William Sewell is the son of British actor Rufus Sewell.
  • 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 Patten (historian)
Triple: [Patten, hasNotableBearer, William Patten (historian)]
Generated description
William Patten was a 16th-century English historian and government official best known for his detailed account of the 1547 Battle of Pinkie during the reign of Edward VI.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Patten (historian)
Target entity description: William Patten was a 16th-century English historian and government official best known for his detailed account of the 1547 Battle of Pinkie during the reign of Edward VI.
  • A. Robert B. Bowler
    Robert B. Bowler was an American public official who served as the United States Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
  • B. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • C. Marshall Clagett
    Marshall Clagett was an American historian of science renowned for his influential scholarship on the history of medieval and early modern mathematics and physics.
  • D. William Petterson
    William Petterson is an actor known for his role in the film "From Hand to Mouth."
  • E. William Sewell
    William Sewell is the son of British actor Rufus Sewell.
  • 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_69d6ab6ccbec8190b09e2d357aa80064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f8bc60c8190b0ceb84093e70db4 completed April 10, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f62ab4cdec8190849604ef2ec498ba completed May 2, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f62be420308190bcb00d8b37b09ea2 completed May 2, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f63050f5d48190881688d12c4c1819 completed May 2, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:54 p.m.