Triple
T16490023
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Archer Hirst |
E400543
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableStudent |
P4838
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Kingdon Clifford |
E781141
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Kingdon Clifford | Statement: [Thomas Archer Hirst, notableStudent, William Kingdon Clifford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Kingdon Clifford Context triple: [Thomas Archer Hirst, notableStudent, William Kingdon Clifford]
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A.
William Kingdon Clifford
chosen
William Kingdon Clifford was a 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher known for his work on geometric algebra and for the philosophical concept of "Clifford's principle" about the ethics of belief.
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B.
William Clifford
William Clifford was an American silent film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his roles in numerous dramas and features of the era.
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C.
Sir William Rouse Ball
Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
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D.
William Rowan Hamilton
William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
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E.
Joseph Larmor
Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e32e2f31f48190825af5934d976ab7 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00582472388190a3c338ab636da9c6 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.