Triple

T16530023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred Herbert E401538 entity
Predicate knownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Sir Alfred Herbert
Sir Alfred Herbert was a prominent British industrialist and philanthropist best known for building one of the world’s largest machine tool manufacturing businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E1218193 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: Sir Alfred Herbert | Statement: [Alfred Herbert, knownAs, Sir Alfred Herbert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Alfred Herbert
Context triple: [Alfred Herbert, knownAs, Sir Alfred Herbert]
  • A. George Charles Beresford
    George Charles Beresford was a British studio photographer best known for his portraits of prominent literary and artistic figures in the early 20th century.
  • B. Edmund Goulding
    Edmund Goulding was a British-born film director and screenwriter best known for helming sophisticated Hollywood dramas during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Alfred Barry
    Alfred Barry was a 19th-century English Anglican bishop, educator, and author who served as Bishop of Sydney and was known for his influential work in religious education.
  • D. William Carr Beresford
    William Carr Beresford was a British Army officer and later Viscount Beresford, noted for his role in the Napoleonic Wars and as a key commander in the Peninsular War alongside Portuguese forces.
  • E. Arthur Lyttelton
    Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
  • 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: Sir Alfred Herbert
Triple: [Alfred Herbert, knownAs, Sir Alfred Herbert]
Generated description
Sir Alfred Herbert was a prominent British industrialist and philanthropist best known for building one of the world’s largest machine tool manufacturing businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Alfred Herbert
Target entity description: Sir Alfred Herbert was a prominent British industrialist and philanthropist best known for building one of the world’s largest machine tool manufacturing businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. George Charles Beresford
    George Charles Beresford was a British studio photographer best known for his portraits of prominent literary and artistic figures in the early 20th century.
  • B. Edmund Goulding
    Edmund Goulding was a British-born film director and screenwriter best known for helming sophisticated Hollywood dramas during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Alfred Barry
    Alfred Barry was a 19th-century English Anglican bishop, educator, and author who served as Bishop of Sydney and was known for his influential work in religious education.
  • D. William Carr Beresford
    William Carr Beresford was a British Army officer and later Viscount Beresford, noted for his role in the Napoleonic Wars and as a key commander in the Peninsular War alongside Portuguese forces.
  • E. Arthur Lyttelton
    Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
  • 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_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32ed625208190a68b879266b05b3f completed April 18, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00609129808190b893346e06deb944 completed May 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0061d3e42c819092d4ece63661a327 completed May 10, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00625771e88190ac355bbddb9b38ed completed May 10, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.