Triple

T1273367
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Rail E15757 entity
Predicate associatedPerson P2308 FINISHED
Object Richard Beeching
Richard Beeching was a British physicist, industrialist, and chairman of British Railways best known for authoring the 1960s reports that led to widespread railway line closures in the UK.
E144354 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: Richard Beeching | Statement: [British Rail, associatedPerson, Richard Beeching]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Beeching
Context triple: [British Rail, associatedPerson, Richard Beeching]
  • A. George Ivatt
    George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
  • B. Sir John Fowler
    Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
  • C. Roy Fedden
    Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Thomas Beeby
    Thomas Beeby is an American architect associated with the New Classical movement, known for designing prominent cultural and institutional buildings.
  • E. Robert Stephenson
    Robert Stephenson was a pioneering 19th-century English railway and civil engineer renowned for his work on early steam locomotives and major railway bridges.
  • 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: Richard Beeching
Triple: [British Rail, associatedPerson, Richard Beeching]
Generated description
Richard Beeching was a British physicist, industrialist, and chairman of British Railways best known for authoring the 1960s reports that led to widespread railway line closures in the UK.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Beeching
Target entity description: Richard Beeching was a British physicist, industrialist, and chairman of British Railways best known for authoring the 1960s reports that led to widespread railway line closures in the UK.
  • A. George Ivatt
    George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
  • B. Sir John Fowler
    Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
  • C. Roy Fedden
    Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Thomas Beeby
    Thomas Beeby is an American architect associated with the New Classical movement, known for designing prominent cultural and institutional buildings.
  • E. Robert Stephenson
    Robert Stephenson was a pioneering 19th-century English railway and civil engineer renowned for his work on early steam locomotives and major railway bridges.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c06d73608190be87be49c4367072 completed March 1, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac998e56488190ac3cf51563335e30 completed March 7, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9a14a53481908c45e4e6609a368e completed March 7, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9a98788881909e316322af87b848 completed March 7, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.