Triple

T16491157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scoresby Sund region E400569 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Scoresby
William Scoresby was a 19th-century English Arctic explorer, whaler, and scientist known for his detailed surveys and studies of polar regions.
E1216599 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 Scoresby | Statement: [Scoresby Sund region, namedAfter, William Scoresby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Scoresby
Context triple: [Scoresby Sund region, namedAfter, William Scoresby]
  • A. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • B. James Weddell
    James Weddell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer best known for his Antarctic voyages and for reaching a then-record southern latitude in the sea that now bears his name.
  • C. Frederick William Beechey
    Frederick William Beechey was a 19th-century British naval officer, explorer, and geographer known for his Arctic and Pacific voyages and detailed surveying work.
  • D. George Strong Nares
    George Strong Nares was a 19th-century British naval officer and Arctic explorer best known for leading the 1875–1876 British Arctic Expedition toward the North Pole.
  • E. Francis Leopold McClintock
    Francis Leopold McClintock was a 19th-century Irish Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer renowned for his pioneering sledge journeys and for leading the successful 1857–59 expedition that uncovered crucial evidence about the fate of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition.
  • 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 Scoresby
Triple: [Scoresby Sund region, namedAfter, William Scoresby]
Generated description
William Scoresby was a 19th-century English Arctic explorer, whaler, and scientist known for his detailed surveys and studies of polar regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Scoresby
Target entity description: William Scoresby was a 19th-century English Arctic explorer, whaler, and scientist known for his detailed surveys and studies of polar regions.
  • A. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • B. James Weddell
    James Weddell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer best known for his Antarctic voyages and for reaching a then-record southern latitude in the sea that now bears his name.
  • C. Frederick William Beechey
    Frederick William Beechey was a 19th-century British naval officer, explorer, and geographer known for his Arctic and Pacific voyages and detailed surveying work.
  • D. George Strong Nares
    George Strong Nares was a 19th-century British naval officer and Arctic explorer best known for leading the 1875–1876 British Arctic Expedition toward the North Pole.
  • E. Francis Leopold McClintock
    Francis Leopold McClintock was a 19th-century Irish Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer renowned for his pioneering sledge journeys and for leading the successful 1857–59 expedition that uncovered crucial evidence about the fate of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition.
  • 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_69e32e300a248190a3d4ca96a0a176cf completed April 18, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0058266b8c8190adc0974025553783 completed May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0058919c148190b0fae3d33e62377f completed May 10, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0059da52dc8190ad1a4ed4a659be26 completed May 10, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.