Triple

T16162672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Bouch E392215 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Bouch
Bouch is a surname most notably associated with Sir Thomas Bouch, a 19th-century British railway engineer involved in the design of the ill-fated original Tay Bridge.
 E1200363 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Bouch | Statement: [Thomas Bouch, familyName, Bouch]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bouch
Context triple: [Thomas Bouch, familyName, Bouch]
  • A. Boignée
    Boignée is a village that forms one of the municipal sections of the municipality of Sombreffe in the province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium.
  • B. Boucau
    Boucau is a small commune in southwestern France’s Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, near the Atlantic coast and the city of Bayonne.
  • C. Booué
    Booué is a small town in central Gabon situated along the Ogooué River, known as a local transport and trading hub in the region.
  • D. Boussu
    Boussu is a municipality in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia, Belgium.
  • E. Drouet
    Drouet is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster who helped identify and arrest King Louis XVI during his attempted flight in 1791.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bouch
Target entity description: Bouch is a surname most notably associated with Sir Thomas Bouch, a 19th-century British railway engineer involved in the design of the ill-fated original Tay Bridge.
  • A. Boignée
    Boignée is a village that forms one of the municipal sections of the municipality of Sombreffe in the province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium.
  • B. Boucau
    Boucau is a small commune in southwestern France’s Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, near the Atlantic coast and the city of Bayonne.
  • C. Booué
    Booué is a small town in central Gabon situated along the Ogooué River, known as a local transport and trading hub in the region.
  • D. Boussu
    Boussu is a municipality in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia, Belgium.
  • E. Drouet
    Drouet is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster who helped identify and arrest King Louis XVI during his attempted flight in 1791.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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: Bouch
Triple: [Thomas Bouch, familyName, Bouch]
Generated description
Bouch is a surname most notably associated with Sir Thomas Bouch, a 19th-century British railway engineer involved in the design of the ill-fated original Tay Bridge.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c elicitation completed
NER batch_69e21e5ffba88190b9dc7bb9afb6fdf2 ner completed
NED1 batch_6a000785fcd481909ddf92cf9cc5c0aa ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_6a0008dbeb988190bbfb590f945ace02 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_6a00086c32c48190b7cf3ef2a97c7c9f nedg completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.