Triple

T12470480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Snow E298042 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John Snow was a pioneering 19th-century English physician widely regarded as one of the founders of modern epidemiology for his work tracing a cholera outbreak to contaminated water.
E985967 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 | Statement: [John Snow, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Snow, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John B. Magruder was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and his flamboyant personality.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Howard, an Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Woodville, a 15th-century English nobleman associated with the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Foxe the Younger, an English clergyman and son of the martyrologist John Foxe.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, a prominent 19th-century British lawyer and Conservative politician who served three times as Lord Chancellor.
  • 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
Triple: [John Snow, givenName, John]
Generated description
John Snow was a pioneering 19th-century English physician widely regarded as one of the founders of modern epidemiology for his work tracing a cholera outbreak to contaminated water.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John Snow was a pioneering 19th-century English physician widely regarded as one of the founders of modern epidemiology for his work tracing a cholera outbreak to contaminated water.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Zephaniah Holwell, an 18th-century British surgeon, colonial administrator, and writer associated with the East India Company.
  • B. John
    John Harvey Kellogg was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, and health reformer best known for developing corn flakes and promoting vegetarianism and wellness at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Boyd Orr, a Scottish nutritionist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global food policy and security.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John James Rickard Macleod, the Scottish physiologist and co-recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Bodkin Adams, a British physician notorious for being suspected of murdering numerous patients in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d94dba7f6c8190b272f649e0777362 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64b962d1c81909c2119890d921648 completed May 2, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64c7c5d04819094fcbee0a4b5cbb4 completed May 2, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64d653b988190b11d061f55ef7192 completed May 2, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.