Triple

T1580589
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Encyclopaedia Britannica E33753 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Andrew Bell
Andrew Bell was an 18th-century Scottish printer and engraver best known for co-founding and illustrating the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
 E179982 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: Andrew Bell | Statement: [Encyclopaedia Britannica, founder, Andrew Bell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Andrew Bell
Context triple: [Encyclopaedia Britannica, founder, Andrew Bell]
  • A. Geoff Bell
    Geoff Bell is a British character actor known for his tough-guy roles in films such as "Green Street," "The Business," and "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  • B. Tom Bell
    Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
  • C. Michael Devine
    Michael Devine was an Irish republican hunger striker and INLA member who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
  • D. David Michaels
    David Michaels is a television producer and director best known for his work on sports and entertainment broadcasts and as the brother of famed sportscaster Al Michaels.
  • E. Tony James
    Tony James is an American financier and executive best known as the longtime president and chief operating officer of Blackstone and for his leadership roles at major cultural institutions.
  • 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: Andrew Bell
Triple: [Encyclopaedia Britannica, founder, Andrew Bell]
Generated description
Andrew Bell was an 18th-century Scottish printer and engraver best known for co-founding and illustrating the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Andrew Bell
Target entity description: Andrew Bell was an 18th-century Scottish printer and engraver best known for co-founding and illustrating the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • A. Geoff Bell
    Geoff Bell is a British character actor known for his tough-guy roles in films such as "Green Street," "The Business," and "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  • B. Tom Bell
    Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
  • C. Michael Devine
    Michael Devine was an Irish republican hunger striker and INLA member who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
  • D. David Michaels
    David Michaels is a television producer and director best known for his work on sports and entertainment broadcasts and as the brother of famed sportscaster Al Michaels.
  • E. Tony James
    Tony James is an American financier and executive best known as the longtime president and chief operating officer of Blackstone and for his leadership roles at major cultural institutions.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908d78fe48190b155f85deca59639 completed March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4030dd408190af5423ca2a3507b7 completed March 8, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad42612ba08190b6eabae1a098a61c completed March 8, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad42edfa7c8190a23e9a31915db228 completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.