Triple

T16663188
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dowty Rotol E404911 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object George Dowty
George Dowty was a British engineer and industrialist best known for pioneering aircraft landing gear and propeller systems and founding the Dowty aviation engineering group.
E1225999 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: George Dowty | Statement: [Dowty Rotol, foundedBy, George Dowty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Dowty
Context triple: [Dowty Rotol, foundedBy, George Dowty]
  • A. Douglas Cockerell
    Douglas Cockerell was a prominent British bookbinder and teacher, renowned for his influential work in fine binding and book conservation in the early 20th century.
  • B. Guy N. Pocock
    Guy N. Pocock was a British writer, editor, and educator known for his work on English literature and language textbooks in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. P. C. Wren
    P. C. Wren was a British writer best known for his adventure novels set in the French Foreign Legion, particularly the classic tale "Beau Geste."
  • D. Walter Kingsford
    Walter Kingsford was a British-born character actor best known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying dignified professionals or authority figures.
  • E. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • 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: George Dowty
Triple: [Dowty Rotol, foundedBy, George Dowty]
Generated description
George Dowty was a British engineer and industrialist best known for pioneering aircraft landing gear and propeller systems and founding the Dowty aviation engineering group.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Dowty
Target entity description: George Dowty was a British engineer and industrialist best known for pioneering aircraft landing gear and propeller systems and founding the Dowty aviation engineering group.
  • A. Douglas Cockerell
    Douglas Cockerell was a prominent British bookbinder and teacher, renowned for his influential work in fine binding and book conservation in the early 20th century.
  • B. Guy N. Pocock
    Guy N. Pocock was a British writer, editor, and educator known for his work on English literature and language textbooks in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. P. C. Wren
    P. C. Wren was a British writer best known for his adventure novels set in the French Foreign Legion, particularly the classic tale "Beau Geste."
  • D. Walter Kingsford
    Walter Kingsford was a British-born character actor best known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying dignified professionals or authority figures.
  • E. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • 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_69d8838b5fbc81908c6575c132b82e80 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37c9afd048190b73bbc9c423915ca completed April 18, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0084d091e0819088a98ef4aa775d07 completed May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008585ba6c8190b5c870ebe1c93ffc completed May 10, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008624706881909e9a265a37eeb3fc completed May 10, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.