Triple

T14233195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Milne E352806 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Milne
William Milne is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical figures such as missionaries, politicians, and scholars.
E1123014 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 Milne | Statement: [Milne, hasNotableBearer, William Milne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Milne
Context triple: [Milne, hasNotableBearer, William Milne]
  • A. Geoffrey Taylor
    Geoffrey Taylor was a prominent British physicist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in fluid dynamics and wave theory.
  • B. Rutherford Alcock
    Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Robert MacNaughton
    Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
  • E. William Stroudley
    William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
  • 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 Milne
Triple: [Milne, hasNotableBearer, William Milne]
Generated description
William Milne is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical figures such as missionaries, politicians, and scholars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Milne
Target entity description: William Milne is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical figures such as missionaries, politicians, and scholars.
  • A. Geoffrey Taylor
    Geoffrey Taylor was a prominent British physicist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in fluid dynamics and wave theory.
  • B. Rutherford Alcock
    Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Robert MacNaughton
    Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
  • E. William Stroudley
    William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
  • 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_69d8278adc7c8190a9218d69bce3c4e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de622cdd6481908befa179a9675bb5 completed April 14, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe387f28688190b9d20f1e2bbc0ddc completed May 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6128b2948190988aea647d54426e completed May 8, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe617af4a881908a906c34995d2403 completed May 8, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:07 a.m.