Triple

T1580590
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Encyclopaedia Britannica E33753 entity
Predicate firstEditor P1932 FINISHED
Object William Smellie
William Smellie was an 18th-century Scottish printer, editor, and naturalist best known for overseeing and shaping the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
E179983 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 Smellie | Statement: [Encyclopaedia Britannica, firstEditor, William Smellie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smellie
Context triple: [Encyclopaedia Britannica, firstEditor, William Smellie]
  • A. William Price
    William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
  • B. Bernard Lintot
    Bernard Lintot was an early 18th-century English bookseller and publisher best known for issuing works by major literary figures such as Alexander Pope.
  • C. Dr. Richard Mead
    Dr. Richard Mead was a prominent early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential work on public health and his association with leading literary and scientific figures of his time.
  • D. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • E. Dugald Stewart
    Dugald Stewart was a prominent Scottish philosopher and mathematician known for advancing the Scottish Enlightenment through his influential work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
  • 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 Smellie
Triple: [Encyclopaedia Britannica, firstEditor, William Smellie]
Generated description
William Smellie was an 18th-century Scottish printer, editor, and naturalist best known for overseeing and shaping the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smellie
Target entity description: William Smellie was an 18th-century Scottish printer, editor, and naturalist best known for overseeing and shaping the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • A. William Price
    William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
  • B. Bernard Lintot
    Bernard Lintot was an early 18th-century English bookseller and publisher best known for issuing works by major literary figures such as Alexander Pope.
  • C. Dr. Richard Mead
    Dr. Richard Mead was a prominent early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential work on public health and his association with leading literary and scientific figures of his time.
  • D. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • E. Dugald Stewart
    Dugald Stewart was a prominent Scottish philosopher and mathematician known for advancing the Scottish Enlightenment through his influential work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
  • 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.