Triple

T12466142
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Telford E297928 entity
Predicate honorificTitle P2097 FINISHED
Object The Colossus of Roads
The Colossus of Roads was the nickname given to Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford, renowned for his pioneering work on roads, bridges, and canals across Britain.
E984719 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: The Colossus of Roads | Statement: [Thomas Telford, honorificTitle, The Colossus of Roads]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Colossus of Roads
Context triple: [Thomas Telford, honorificTitle, The Colossus of Roads]
  • A. The Eternal Road
    The Eternal Road is a biblical opera-oratorio by composer Kurt Weill that dramatizes Jewish history and persecution through a series of staged Old Testament scenes.
  • B. Via dell'Impero
    Via dell'Impero was the original Fascist-era name of Rome’s grand avenue now called Via dei Fori Imperiali, built by Mussolini to cut through the historic forums and showcase imperial Roman ruins.
  • C. The Golden Road
    The Golden Road is a 1913 coming-of-age novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery that continues the adventures of a group of imaginative children in rural Prince Edward Island.
  • D. The Golden Road
    The Golden Road is a scenic cultural and culinary tourist route in Inderøy, Norway, known for its local food producers, art galleries, and picturesque rural landscapes.
  • E. The Sky Road
    The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
  • 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: The Colossus of Roads
Triple: [Thomas Telford, honorificTitle, The Colossus of Roads]
Generated description
The Colossus of Roads was the nickname given to Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford, renowned for his pioneering work on roads, bridges, and canals across Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Colossus of Roads
Target entity description: The Colossus of Roads was the nickname given to Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford, renowned for his pioneering work on roads, bridges, and canals across Britain.
  • A. The Eternal Road
    The Eternal Road is a biblical opera-oratorio by composer Kurt Weill that dramatizes Jewish history and persecution through a series of staged Old Testament scenes.
  • B. Via dell'Impero
    Via dell'Impero was the original Fascist-era name of Rome’s grand avenue now called Via dei Fori Imperiali, built by Mussolini to cut through the historic forums and showcase imperial Roman ruins.
  • C. The Golden Road
    The Golden Road is a 1913 coming-of-age novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery that continues the adventures of a group of imaginative children in rural Prince Edward Island.
  • D. The Golden Road
    The Golden Road is a scenic cultural and culinary tourist route in Inderøy, Norway, known for its local food producers, art galleries, and picturesque rural landscapes.
  • E. The Sky Road
    The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
  • 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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94db7828481909d8f02b2fde83567 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f1f44f481909c7efdffd2aeac41 completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f641a309cc8190b2403e62a6acfe58 completed May 2, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6427c162c8190ae2c027913d43b9e completed May 2, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.