Triple

T12768798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bedford Modern School E305191 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object John Howe (artist)
John Howe is a Canadian book illustrator and conceptual artist best known for his influential visual designs for Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit."
 E1002606 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 Howe (artist) | Statement: [Bedford Modern School, hasNotableAlumni, John Howe (artist)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Howe (artist)
Context triple: [Bedford Modern School, hasNotableAlumni, John Howe (artist)]
  • A. Alan Lee
    Alan Lee is a British illustrator renowned for his atmospheric, detailed depictions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and his award-winning conceptual design work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films.
  • B. Wayne Barlowe
    Wayne Barlowe is a science fiction and fantasy artist and author renowned for his imaginative creature designs and detailed depictions of alien worlds.
  • C. Toby Froud
    Toby Froud is a British-American artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker best known as the baby in the fantasy film "Labyrinth" and for his later work in creature design and stop-motion animation.
  • D. Ben Templesmith
    Ben Templesmith is an Australian comic book artist and writer best known for his distinctive, atmospheric horror artwork on titles such as "30 Days of Night" and "Fell."
  • E. Charles Vess
    Charles Vess is an American fantasy artist and illustrator renowned for his intricate, mythic artwork, particularly his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on works such as "Stardust" and various comic and book projects.
  • 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 Howe (artist)
Triple: [Bedford Modern School, hasNotableAlumni, John Howe (artist)]
Generated description
John Howe is a Canadian book illustrator and conceptual artist best known for his influential visual designs for Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Howe (artist)
Target entity description: John Howe is a Canadian book illustrator and conceptual artist best known for his influential visual designs for Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit."
  • A. Alan Lee
    Alan Lee is a British illustrator renowned for his atmospheric, detailed depictions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and his award-winning conceptual design work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films.
  • B. Wayne Barlowe
    Wayne Barlowe is a science fiction and fantasy artist and author renowned for his imaginative creature designs and detailed depictions of alien worlds.
  • C. Toby Froud
    Toby Froud is a British-American artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker best known as the baby in the fantasy film "Labyrinth" and for his later work in creature design and stop-motion animation.
  • D. Ben Templesmith
    Ben Templesmith is an Australian comic book artist and writer best known for his distinctive, atmospheric horror artwork on titles such as "30 Days of Night" and "Fell."
  • E. Charles Vess
    Charles Vess is an American fantasy artist and illustrator renowned for his intricate, mythic artwork, particularly his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on works such as "Stardust" and various comic and book projects.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96df3b2f88190b37b696400178795 completed April 10, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f684f750a08190abf6122baa579bc4 completed May 2, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6890782c48190ae93866cf39b1c25 completed May 2, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68976b60881908abf5b69b8c37e6e completed May 2, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.