Triple
T14506094
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford |
E340266
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Walter William Rouse Ball |
E355076
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Walter William Rouse Ball | Statement: [Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, namedAfter, Walter William Rouse Ball]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter William Rouse Ball Context triple: [Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, namedAfter, Walter William Rouse Ball]
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A.
Sir William Rouse Ball
chosen
Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
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B.
A. H. Sylvester
A. H. Sylvester was an early 20th-century American topographer and explorer known for his pioneering survey and climbing work in the Sierra Nevada.
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C.
Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
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D.
Edwin Milton Royle
Edwin Milton Royle was an American playwright best known for his popular stage works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de94e25a2481908b8394e9a19f3b64 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd6da07ff481909fb2463b0ea92849 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.