Triple

T12831287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Penney E306791 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William George Penney E306791 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: William George Penney | Statement: [William Penney, fullName, William George Penney]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William George Penney
Context triple: [William Penney, fullName, William George Penney]
  • A. William Penney chosen
    William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
  • B. Charles Wilfred Orr
    Charles Wilfred Orr was a British composer best known for his art songs and settings of English poetry in the early 20th century.
  • C. Gordon Stanley Cochrane
    Gordon Stanley Cochrane, better known as Mickey Cochrane, was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball catcher and manager renowned as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history.
  • D. Gordon Urquhart
    Gordon Urquhart is a screenwriter best known for his work on the horror film "The Hypnotic Eye."
  • E. Lord Rutherford
    Lord Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist whose work on atomic structure and radioactivity earned him the title "father of nuclear physics."
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d96fb0bb208190bdc4d3dc7909be06 ner completed
NED1 batch_69f68ed8d20081908e0fb5262b354cab ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:34 p.m.