Triple

T13050887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Owens College E327444 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Owens
John Owens was a 19th-century English merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the founding of Owens College, a precursor to the University of Manchester.
E1028184 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 Owens | Statement: [Owens College, namedAfter, John Owens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Owens
Context triple: [Owens College, namedAfter, John Owens]
  • A. William McRee
    William McRee was a U.S. Army engineer and officer known for his service in the early 19th century, particularly during the War of 1812, for which a coastal fortification was later named in his honor.
  • B. Wilfred Johnson
    Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
  • C. Joe Guinn
    Joe Guinn was a civil rights activist best known for helping establish the Congress of Racial Equality, a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • D. Elam Ferguson
    Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
  • E. Monty Matthews
    Monty Matthews is an American singer best known as one of the original members of the vocal quartet The Jordanaires, famed for their work backing Elvis Presley and other country and gospel artists.
  • 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 Owens
Triple: [Owens College, namedAfter, John Owens]
Generated description
John Owens was a 19th-century English merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the founding of Owens College, a precursor to the University of Manchester.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Owens
Target entity description: John Owens was a 19th-century English merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the founding of Owens College, a precursor to the University of Manchester.
  • A. William McRee
    William McRee was a U.S. Army engineer and officer known for his service in the early 19th century, particularly during the War of 1812, for which a coastal fortification was later named in his honor.
  • B. Wilfred Johnson
    Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
  • C. Joe Guinn
    Joe Guinn was a civil rights activist best known for helping establish the Congress of Racial Equality, a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • D. Elam Ferguson
    Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
  • E. Monty Matthews
    Monty Matthews is an American singer best known as one of the original members of the vocal quartet The Jordanaires, famed for their work backing Elvis Presley and other country and gospel artists.
  • 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_69d8076e64308190904fb5c93517c901 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d980b98fa081908cfa92116799e874 completed April 10, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff02c1448190b0b41beb427fae23 completed May 3, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6ffeec1e8819090e1917fc6449ede completed May 3, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7017d8d308190bb54958764026325 completed May 3, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:57 p.m.