Triple

T16579005
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ermine Street E402788 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)
The Old English name "Earningas" likely referred to a specific person or tribal group whose association with the area gave rise to the later place-name connected with Ermine Street.
E1220838 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: Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable) | Statement: [Ermine Street, namedAfter, Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)
Context triple: [Ermine Street, namedAfter, Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)]
  • A. Old English personal or tribal name "Wæcel" or "Wæcling" (disputed)
    The Old English name “Wæcel” or “Wæcling” is a disputed personal or tribal name proposed by some scholars as the possible origin of the place-name element found in “Watling Street” and related to early Anglo-Saxon naming traditions.
  • B. Old Norse "Einarr"
    Old Norse "Einarr" is a masculine given name meaning “lone warrior” or “one warrior,” from which the modern Scandinavian name Einar is derived.
  • C. derived from earlier English name Eoforwic
    Jórvík is the Old Norse name for the city of York in northern England, used during the Viking Age when it served as a major Norse settlement and trading center.
  • D. Old English Tīw
    Old English Tīw is the name of the Germanic god of war and the sky, cognate with the Norse god Týr and reflected in the modern English weekday name Tuesday.
  • E. Old Norse "Máni"
    Máni is the personified moon in Norse mythology, depicted as a male deity who guides the moon’s course across the sky.
  • 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: Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)
Triple: [Ermine Street, namedAfter, Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)]
Generated description
The Old English name "Earningas" likely referred to a specific person or tribal group whose association with the area gave rise to the later place-name connected with Ermine Street.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old English personal or tribal name "Earningas" (probable)
Target entity description: The Old English name "Earningas" likely referred to a specific person or tribal group whose association with the area gave rise to the later place-name connected with Ermine Street.
  • A. Old English personal or tribal name "Wæcel" or "Wæcling" (disputed)
    The Old English name “Wæcel” or “Wæcling” is a disputed personal or tribal name proposed by some scholars as the possible origin of the place-name element found in “Watling Street” and related to early Anglo-Saxon naming traditions.
  • B. Old Norse "Einarr"
    Old Norse "Einarr" is a masculine given name meaning “lone warrior” or “one warrior,” from which the modern Scandinavian name Einar is derived.
  • C. derived from earlier English name Eoforwic
    Jórvík is the Old Norse name for the city of York in northern England, used during the Viking Age when it served as a major Norse settlement and trading center.
  • D. Old English Tīw
    Old English Tīw is the name of the Germanic god of war and the sky, cognate with the Norse god Týr and reflected in the modern English weekday name Tuesday.
  • E. Old Norse "Máni"
    Máni is the personified moon in Norse mythology, depicted as a male deity who guides the moon’s course across the sky.
  • 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3595f9be88190b01ba628ecf1103d completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006eee7e4881908a529717bc449078 completed May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006f9043b8819086143b2ec0cf1657 completed May 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00701fc1848190b3248a70b462eab1 completed May 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.