Triple

T16490119
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Spottiswoode E400545 entity
Predicate areaOfInfluence P9 FINISHED
Object British scientific community
The British scientific community is the collective body of scientists, researchers, and learned societies in the United Kingdom that has played a central role in advancing global science and shaping modern scientific thought.
E1217099 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: British scientific community | Statement: [William Spottiswoode, areaOfInfluence, British scientific community]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British scientific community
Context triple: [William Spottiswoode, areaOfInfluence, British scientific community]
  • A. British Association for the Advancement of Science
    The British Association for the Advancement of Science was a 19th- and 20th-century learned society in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting and organizing public engagement with scientific research and education.
  • B. Royal Society scientific committees
    The Royal Society scientific committees were key advisory bodies of leading scientists that guided the United Kingdom’s research priorities and technical decisions during wartime.
  • C. Royal Society
    The Royal Society is the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, renowned as one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific institutions dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
  • D. British International Research Institutes
    The British International Research Institutes are a network of overseas scholarly centers supported by the British Academy that facilitate advanced research and academic collaboration in the humanities and social sciences.
  • E. Royal Institution
    The Royal Institution is a historic London-based scientific organization renowned for its pioneering research, public lectures, and association with prominent scientists such as Michael Faraday.
  • 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: British scientific community
Triple: [William Spottiswoode, areaOfInfluence, British scientific community]
Generated description
The British scientific community is the collective body of scientists, researchers, and learned societies in the United Kingdom that has played a central role in advancing global science and shaping modern scientific thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British scientific community
Target entity description: The British scientific community is the collective body of scientists, researchers, and learned societies in the United Kingdom that has played a central role in advancing global science and shaping modern scientific thought.
  • A. British Association for the Advancement of Science
    The British Association for the Advancement of Science was a 19th- and 20th-century learned society in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting and organizing public engagement with scientific research and education.
  • B. Royal Society scientific committees
    The Royal Society scientific committees were key advisory bodies of leading scientists that guided the United Kingdom’s research priorities and technical decisions during wartime.
  • C. Royal Society
    The Royal Society is the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, renowned as one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific institutions dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
  • D. British International Research Institutes
    The British International Research Institutes are a network of overseas scholarly centers supported by the British Academy that facilitate advanced research and academic collaboration in the humanities and social sciences.
  • E. Royal Institution
    The Royal Institution is a historic London-based scientific organization renowned for its pioneering research, public lectures, and association with prominent scientists such as Michael Faraday.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0059126e588190b531c145f3c155b4 completed May 10, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0059b5a1f8819089caefc121246739 completed May 10, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.