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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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*.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.