Triple

T13091442
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tommy Flowers E310471 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Thomas Harold Flowers
Thomas Harold Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, used to help decrypt German codes during World War II.
 E1019457 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: Thomas Harold Flowers | Statement: [Tommy Flowers, birthName, Thomas Harold Flowers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Harold Flowers
Context triple: [Tommy Flowers, birthName, Thomas Harold Flowers]
  • A. Allan W. Eckert
    Allan W. Eckert was an American author and naturalist best known for his meticulously researched historical novels and nature writing, including the "Winning of America" series.
  • B. Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • C. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • E. James W. Mauchly
    James W. Mauchly is the son of computing pioneer John W. Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • 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: Thomas Harold Flowers
Triple: [Tommy Flowers, birthName, Thomas Harold Flowers]
Generated description
Thomas Harold Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, used to help decrypt German codes during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Harold Flowers
Target entity description: Thomas Harold Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, used to help decrypt German codes during World War II.
  • A. Allan W. Eckert
    Allan W. Eckert was an American author and naturalist best known for his meticulously researched historical novels and nature writing, including the "Winning of America" series.
  • B. Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • C. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • E. James W. Mauchly
    James W. Mauchly is the son of computing pioneer John W. Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • 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_69f6d873b978819097962c82e8ffdac8 completed May 3, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:03 p.m.