Triple

T13091342
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gordon Welchman E310469 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Gordon Welchman
William Gordon Welchman was a British mathematician and codebreaker who played a key role at Bletchley Park in developing techniques and machinery to decrypt German Enigma communications during World War II.
E1019835 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: William Gordon Welchman | Statement: [Gordon Welchman, fullName, William Gordon Welchman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gordon Welchman
Context triple: [Gordon Welchman, fullName, William Gordon Welchman]
  • A. Edward Fletcher-Wooten
    Edward Fletcher-Wooten is a central romantic lead in the film "The Wedding Date," around whom much of the story’s relationship drama and personal growth revolves.
  • B. Walter Allen Sheppard
    Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
  • C. William Rutherford Mead
    William Rutherford Mead was an American architect best known as one of the principal partners in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
  • D. Joseph Benjamin West
    Joseph Benjamin West was an American author and longtime White House chief usher best known for his memoir "Upstairs at the White House," which offers an insider’s view of several U.S. presidencies.
  • E. George Daniel Weaver
    George Daniel Weaver, better known as Buck Weaver, was an American third baseman for the Chicago White Sox and one of the players banned from Major League Baseball for life following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • 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: William Gordon Welchman
Triple: [Gordon Welchman, fullName, William Gordon Welchman]
Generated description
William Gordon Welchman was a British mathematician and codebreaker who played a key role at Bletchley Park in developing techniques and machinery to decrypt German Enigma communications during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gordon Welchman
Target entity description: William Gordon Welchman was a British mathematician and codebreaker who played a key role at Bletchley Park in developing techniques and machinery to decrypt German Enigma communications during World War II.
  • A. Edward Fletcher-Wooten
    Edward Fletcher-Wooten is a central romantic lead in the film "The Wedding Date," around whom much of the story’s relationship drama and personal growth revolves.
  • B. Walter Allen Sheppard
    Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
  • C. William Rutherford Mead
    William Rutherford Mead was an American architect best known as one of the principal partners in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
  • D. Joseph Benjamin West
    Joseph Benjamin West was an American author and longtime White House chief usher best known for his memoir "Upstairs at the White House," which offers an insider’s view of several U.S. presidencies.
  • E. George Daniel Weaver
    George Daniel Weaver, better known as Buck Weaver, was an American third baseman for the Chicago White Sox and one of the players banned from Major League Baseball for life following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • 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_69d806a733548190989cfd4ce981ca33 completed April 9, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9813acbac8190b2fe5e07287457cf completed April 10, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6d61629ac8190a2dfa11951a877f0 completed May 3, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6d6e326408190b7906c7ea8e3ef85 completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6d8760acc81908922ce960cbbd250 completed May 3, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:03 p.m.