Triple

T1238285
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge E26597 entity
Predicate hasAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object John Dee
John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
E142624 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 Dee | Statement: [Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, hasAlumnus, John Dee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dee
Context triple: [Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, hasAlumnus, John Dee]
  • A. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
    Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
  • B. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • C. Henry Savile
    Henry Savile was an English scholar and classical translator best known for his role in the King James Bible translation and his work as Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
  • D. Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath known for his wide-ranging works on subjects such as Egyptology, linguistics, comparative religion, and natural philosophy.
  • E. Dr Vesey Stanhope
    Dr Vesey Stanhope is a worldly, indolent clergyman and patriarch of a troublesome family in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, most notably in "Barchester Towers."
  • 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 Dee
Triple: [Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, hasAlumnus, John Dee]
Generated description
John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dee
Target entity description: John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
  • A. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
    Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
  • B. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • C. Henry Savile
    Henry Savile was an English scholar and classical translator best known for his role in the King James Bible translation and his work as Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
  • D. Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath known for his wide-ranging works on subjects such as Egyptology, linguistics, comparative religion, and natural philosophy.
  • E. Dr Vesey Stanhope
    Dr Vesey Stanhope is a worldly, indolent clergyman and patriarch of a troublesome family in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, most notably in "Barchester Towers."
  • 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_69a4948571c88190a9191e451e6035fd completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf406b988190a12aa26bbcb88d6a completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8f7755fc819089e23eca81583885 completed March 7, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac903eb12c8190a4024a71f15b19a4 completed March 7, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac916522b081908401b89261f99d50 completed March 7, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.