Triple

T1295120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Smith Medal E27636 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Ian G. Gass
Ian G. Gass was a prominent British geologist known for his influential work on the geology and tectonics of oceanic islands and the Red Sea region.
E182148 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: Ian G. Gass | Statement: [William Smith Medal, notableRecipient, Ian G. Gass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian G. Gass
Context triple: [William Smith Medal, notableRecipient, Ian G. Gass]
  • A. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • B. Robert Hodgen
    Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
  • C. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • D. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • E. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • 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: Ian G. Gass
Triple: [William Smith Medal, notableRecipient, Ian G. Gass]
Generated description
Ian G. Gass was a prominent British geologist known for his influential work on the geology and tectonics of oceanic islands and the Red Sea region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian G. Gass
Target entity description: Ian G. Gass was a prominent British geologist known for his influential work on the geology and tectonics of oceanic islands and the Red Sea region.
  • A. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • B. Robert Hodgen
    Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
  • C. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • D. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • E. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • 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_69a496d6682881909ba658f1c1e0e2b0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0f4031481908f5e3a53d8a72929 completed March 1, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51996dc08190afecb40095e3d3e2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad521ac9a88190978b9ed3e3d14d98 completed March 8, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad52bfdbec81908f7240c46ce11888 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.