Triple

T12857838
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horrocks E307499 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James Horrocks
James Horrocks was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman who served as the president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
E1008348 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 Horrocks | Statement: [Horrocks, hasNotableBearer, James Horrocks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Horrocks
Context triple: [Horrocks, hasNotableBearer, James Horrocks]
  • A. Andrew Crommelin
    Andrew Crommelin was a British astronomer known for his work on comet orbits and his role in early 20th-century observational expeditions.
  • B. James Houghton
    James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
  • C. Francis Baily
    Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
  • D. John Horrocks (astronomer)
    John Horrocks was a 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician noted for his early observation of a transit of Venus and his contributions to improving astronomical measurements.
  • E. Peter Harrison
    Peter Harrison was an influential 18th-century British-born American architect, often regarded as the first professionally trained architect in the American colonies, known for designing several important colonial-era buildings.
  • 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 Horrocks
Triple: [Horrocks, hasNotableBearer, James Horrocks]
Generated description
James Horrocks was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman who served as the president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Horrocks
Target entity description: James Horrocks was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman who served as the president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
  • A. Andrew Crommelin
    Andrew Crommelin was a British astronomer known for his work on comet orbits and his role in early 20th-century observational expeditions.
  • B. James Houghton
    James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
  • C. Francis Baily
    Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
  • D. John Horrocks (astronomer)
    John Horrocks was a 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician noted for his early observation of a transit of Venus and his contributions to improving astronomical measurements.
  • E. Peter Harrison
    Peter Harrison was an influential 18th-century British-born American architect, often regarded as the first professionally trained architect in the American colonies, known for designing several important colonial-era buildings.
  • 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d970242bd48190941cbae0315ebc3d completed April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6a54ce34c819080ef09ec040a4dbb completed May 3, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a641d1988190b9af41c8c7ca599e completed May 3, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a7792f948190bb0b324bee0cd8ac completed May 3, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.