Triple

T16586827
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kobus megaceros E402980 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object William Edward de Winton
William Edward de Winton was a British zoologist and mammalogist known for his taxonomic work on African mammals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E1222172 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 Edward de Winton | Statement: [Kobus megaceros, describedBy, William Edward de Winton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Edward de Winton
Context triple: [Kobus megaceros, describedBy, William Edward de Winton]
  • A. Lionel Wigram
    Lionel Wigram is a British film producer and screenwriter known for his work on major studio films such as the Sherlock Holmes series and various Warner Bros. productions.
  • B. Sir William Davidson Niven
    Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for editing and promoting the works of James Clerk Maxwell and for his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Sidney Lanfield
    Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • D. David Hart Dyke
    David Hart Dyke is a retired British Royal Navy officer and former commanding officer of HMS Coventry, noted for his role in the Falklands War.
  • E. Archibald Edward Nye
    Archibald Edward Nye was a British Army general and colonial administrator who became the inaugural Governor of the Indian state of Madras (later Tamil Nadu) after World War II.
  • 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 Edward de Winton
Triple: [Kobus megaceros, describedBy, William Edward de Winton]
Generated description
William Edward de Winton was a British zoologist and mammalogist known for his taxonomic work on African mammals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Edward de Winton
Target entity description: William Edward de Winton was a British zoologist and mammalogist known for his taxonomic work on African mammals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Lionel Wigram
    Lionel Wigram is a British film producer and screenwriter known for his work on major studio films such as the Sherlock Holmes series and various Warner Bros. productions.
  • B. Sir William Davidson Niven
    Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for editing and promoting the works of James Clerk Maxwell and for his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Sidney Lanfield
    Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • D. David Hart Dyke
    David Hart Dyke is a retired British Royal Navy officer and former commanding officer of HMS Coventry, noted for his role in the Falklands War.
  • E. Archibald Edward Nye
    Archibald Edward Nye was a British Army general and colonial administrator who became the inaugural Governor of the Indian state of Madras (later Tamil Nadu) after World War II.
  • 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_69e3599daa508190a9ed6f64138c0e53 completed April 18, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a007597905881909df7dc49961b6a02 completed May 10, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00766f057c8190a9929063525893d7 completed May 10, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0076d825ac81909647fb82b4a6914e completed May 10, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.