Triple

T12574013
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Timothy Gowers E271119 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Gowers
Gowers is a surname most notably associated with Sir Timothy Gowers, a prominent British mathematician and Fields Medalist.
 E989310 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: Gowers | Statement: [Timothy Gowers, familyName, Gowers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gowers
Context triple: [Timothy Gowers, familyName, Gowers]
  • A. Littlewood
    Littlewood is a surname most notably associated with the influential British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood, known for his work in analysis and number theory.
  • B. Graham
    Graham is the surname of Elizabeth Arden, the pioneering Canadian-American businesswoman who founded the iconic Elizabeth Arden cosmetics empire.
  • C. Graham
    Graham is a masculine given name of English origin, historically derived from a surname and commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Hargreaves
    Hargreaves is an English surname most notably associated with James Hargreaves, the 18th-century inventor of the spinning jenny.
  • E. Guth
    Guth is the surname of Alan Guth, an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation in the early 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: Gowers
Triple: [Timothy Gowers, familyName, Gowers]
Generated description
Gowers is a surname most notably associated with Sir Timothy Gowers, a prominent British mathematician and Fields Medalist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gowers
Target entity description: Gowers is a surname most notably associated with Sir Timothy Gowers, a prominent British mathematician and Fields Medalist.
  • A. Littlewood
    Littlewood is a surname most notably associated with the influential British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood, known for his work in analysis and number theory.
  • B. Graham
    Graham is a masculine given name of English origin, historically derived from a surname and commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Graham
    Graham is the surname of Elizabeth Arden, the pioneering Canadian-American businesswoman who founded the iconic Elizabeth Arden cosmetics empire.
  • D. Hargreaves
    Hargreaves is an English surname most notably associated with James Hargreaves, the 18th-century inventor of the spinning jenny.
  • E. Guth
    Guth is the surname of Alan Guth, an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation in the early 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_69d7bde87b648190bcd0266e9efde098 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d954a629fc8190a1c3b6777aad4527 completed April 10, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65595826081908035655f7930f55a completed May 2, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f656a86ff48190bd3debd30e11df80 completed May 2, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f657aa1bf48190a884e0dfce31e30e completed May 2, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 4:42 p.m.