Triple

T14682276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Thomas Blanford E344817 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Blanford
Blanford is an English surname most notably associated with William Thomas Blanford, a 19th-century British geologist and naturalist.
E1113452 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: Blanford | Statement: [William Thomas Blanford, familyName, Blanford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blanford
Context triple: [William Thomas Blanford, familyName, Blanford]
  • A. Khardaha
    Khardaha is a suburban city in the Indian state of West Bengal, located near Kolkata along the Hooghly River and known as part of the Kolkata metropolitan area.
  • B. Zarqan
    Zarqan is a small city in southern Iran located within Fars Province, known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to the regional capital Shiraz.
  • C. Qataban
    Qataban was an ancient South Arabian kingdom known for its incense trade and strategic position along key caravan routes in what is now Yemen.
  • D. Beruwala
    Beruwala is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and historic Muslim community.
  • E. Khora
    Khora is one of the now nearly extinct indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese people of the Andaman Islands in India.
  • 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: Blanford
Triple: [William Thomas Blanford, familyName, Blanford]
Generated description
Blanford is an English surname most notably associated with William Thomas Blanford, a 19th-century British geologist and naturalist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blanford
Target entity description: Blanford is an English surname most notably associated with William Thomas Blanford, a 19th-century British geologist and naturalist.
  • A. Khardaha
    Khardaha is a suburban city in the Indian state of West Bengal, located near Kolkata along the Hooghly River and known as part of the Kolkata metropolitan area.
  • B. Zarqan
    Zarqan is a small city in southern Iran located within Fars Province, known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to the regional capital Shiraz.
  • C. Qataban
    Qataban was an ancient South Arabian kingdom known for its incense trade and strategic position along key caravan routes in what is now Yemen.
  • D. Beruwala
    Beruwala is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and historic Muslim community.
  • E. Khora
    Khora is one of the now nearly extinct indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese people of the Andaman Islands in India.
  • 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_69d822e34b348190ada4d1cdb6c7c226 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb56a51ec8190941684fd562a7182 completed April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde182dab08190aac2ff2db666ee69 completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde5efec48819098c55c7b4abcc7a5 completed May 8, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde66b1bf881908072a50d43a527f2 completed May 8, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.