Triple
T13437641
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | An Inland Voyage |
E320270
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson
Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson was a Scottish writer and close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, best known as Stevenson’s canoeing companion and the model for “Cigarette” in the travel memoir *An Inland Voyage*.
|
E1040415
|
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: Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson | Statement: [An Inland Voyage, featuresCharacter, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson Context triple: [An Inland Voyage, featuresCharacter, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson]
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A.
Sir John Hoddinott
Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
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B.
Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar was a senior British diplomat and civil servant who played a key role in post-World War II European affairs.
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C.
Sir William Davidson Niven
Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for editing and promoting the works of James Clerk Maxwell and for his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Archibald Edward Nye
Archibald Edward Nye was a British Army general and colonial administrator who became the inaugural Governor of the Indian state of Madras (later Tamil Nadu) after World War II.
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E.
Sir Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s Music and held several prestigious church and court musical appointments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson Triple: [An Inland Voyage, featuresCharacter, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson]
Generated description
Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson was a Scottish writer and close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, best known as Stevenson’s canoeing companion and the model for “Cigarette” in the travel memoir *An Inland Voyage*.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson Target entity description: Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson was a Scottish writer and close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, best known as Stevenson’s canoeing companion and the model for “Cigarette” in the travel memoir *An Inland Voyage*.
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A.
Sir John Hoddinott
Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
-
B.
Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar was a senior British diplomat and civil servant who played a key role in post-World War II European affairs.
-
C.
Sir William Davidson Niven
Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for editing and promoting the works of James Clerk Maxwell and for his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Archibald Edward Nye
Archibald Edward Nye was a British Army general and colonial administrator who became the inaugural Governor of the Indian state of Madras (later Tamil Nadu) after World War II.
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E.
Sir Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s Music and held several prestigious church and court musical appointments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbaee42a8c8190a85716b4a6db335e |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f7399215bc8190b846906b0f081e7f |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f73bd79b8c8190bf91865e22bd41d0 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:13 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f73c45b0748190ab9b1b524d206c0d |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:15 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.