Triple

T14628704
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boyne Viaduct E343421 entity
Predicate designedBy P184 FINISHED
Object Sir John Macneill
Sir John Macneill was a prominent 19th-century Irish civil engineer noted for his pioneering work on railway infrastructure and major bridges.
E1110990 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 John Macneill | Statement: [Boyne Viaduct, designedBy, Sir John Macneill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Macneill
Context triple: [Boyne Viaduct, designedBy, Sir John Macneill]
  • A. Sir John Aird
    Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
  • B. Sir John Campbell Brodie
    Sir John Campbell Brodie was a Scottish nobleman and public figure who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, acting as the British monarch’s representative in that county.
  • C. Sir John Ritchie Findlay
    Sir John Ritchie Findlay was a Scottish newspaper proprietor and philanthropist from the prominent Findlay family associated with The Scotsman.
  • D. Sir John Turnbull Macpherson
    Sir John Turnbull Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor and later Governor-General of Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Sir John Struthers
    Sir John Struthers was a Scottish anatomist and academic known for his influential work in comparative anatomy and medical education in the 19th century.
  • 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 John Macneill
Triple: [Boyne Viaduct, designedBy, Sir John Macneill]
Generated description
Sir John Macneill was a prominent 19th-century Irish civil engineer noted for his pioneering work on railway infrastructure and major bridges.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Macneill
Target entity description: Sir John Macneill was a prominent 19th-century Irish civil engineer noted for his pioneering work on railway infrastructure and major bridges.
  • A. Sir John Aird
    Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
  • B. Sir John Campbell Brodie
    Sir John Campbell Brodie was a Scottish nobleman and public figure who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, acting as the British monarch’s representative in that county.
  • C. Sir John Ritchie Findlay
    Sir John Ritchie Findlay was a Scottish newspaper proprietor and philanthropist from the prominent Findlay family associated with The Scotsman.
  • D. Sir John Turnbull Macpherson
    Sir John Turnbull Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor and later Governor-General of Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Sir John Struthers
    Sir John Struthers was a Scottish anatomist and academic known for his influential work in comparative anatomy and medical education in the 19th century.
  • 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_69d822dffc3c8190aa173b90761bffda completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb4a7c8fc81909d10c1f563d7d1e7 completed April 14, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fda92c25ac8190ba931c009e7ace19 completed May 8, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdb7e5aa6481908d4933e3932c5d03 completed May 8, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdb841f3a88190867c635950a1492c completed May 8, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:26 a.m.