Triple

T12597300
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stirling's approximation E300765 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James Stirling
James Stirling was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician best known for his work in analysis and for the approximation formula for factorials that bears his name.
 E992329 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: James Stirling | Statement: [Stirling's approximation, namedAfter, James Stirling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Stirling
Context triple: [Stirling's approximation, namedAfter, James Stirling]
  • A. James Stirling
    James Stirling was a 19th-century British naval officer and colonial administrator who became the first Governor of Western Australia.
  • B. James Stirling
    James Stirling was a prominent British architect known for his influential transition from modernism to postmodernism, marked by bold forms, complex geometries, and innovative use of color and materials.
  • C. Colin Rowe
    Colin Rowe was a British architectural historian and theorist known for his influential essays on modernism, urban form, and the relationship between classical and modern architecture.
  • D. Richard Rogers
    Richard Rogers was a renowned British architect celebrated for his high-tech, modernist designs, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in London.
  • E. Basil Spence
    Basil Spence was a prominent 20th-century British architect best known for his modernist designs and major postwar reconstruction projects in the United Kingdom.
  • 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: James Stirling
Triple: [Stirling's approximation, namedAfter, James Stirling]
Generated description
James Stirling was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician best known for his work in analysis and for the approximation formula for factorials that bears his name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Stirling
Target entity description: James Stirling was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician best known for his work in analysis and for the approximation formula for factorials that bears his name.
  • A. James Stirling
    James Stirling was a 19th-century British naval officer and colonial administrator who became the first Governor of Western Australia.
  • B. James Stirling
    James Stirling was a prominent British architect known for his influential transition from modernism to postmodernism, marked by bold forms, complex geometries, and innovative use of color and materials.
  • C. Colin Rowe
    Colin Rowe was a British architectural historian and theorist known for his influential essays on modernism, urban form, and the relationship between classical and modern architecture.
  • D. Richard Rogers
    Richard Rogers was a renowned British architect celebrated for his high-tech, modernist designs, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in London.
  • E. Basil Spence
    Basil Spence was a prominent 20th-century British architect best known for his modernist designs and major postwar reconstruction projects in the United Kingdom.
  • 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_69d7bdea2ca881908f379526c13b1145 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d954cf33b88190bff339fcd3142cc8 completed April 10, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65ec75fc08190aa13cbb0161eb35c completed May 2, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6605bca10819086966e1574c31318 completed May 2, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6617997188190bfce14c54619af7f completed May 2, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:08 p.m.