Triple

T16749145
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William John Swainson E407028 entity
Predicate middleName P143 FINISHED
Object John
John is the middle name of the 19th-century English naturalist and illustrator William John Swainson.
E1231802 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: John | Statement: [William John Swainson, middleName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [William John Swainson, middleName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John C. Sheehan, an American organic chemist renowned for achieving the first complete laboratory synthesis of penicillin.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Cornford, a British poet and communist who was killed while fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
  • 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: John
Triple: [William John Swainson, middleName, John]
Generated description
John is the middle name of the 19th-century English naturalist and illustrator William John Swainson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the middle name of the 19th-century English naturalist and illustrator William John Swainson.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Cassin, a 19th-century American ornithologist known for his extensive work in classifying North American birds.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Stevens Henslow, the 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and mentor to Charles Darwin.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century English art critic, social thinker, and writer.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of the influential British evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Barrow, a prominent 19th-century English statesman, writer, and promoter of Arctic exploration.
  • 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_69d8838ffb088190a0b11149929006bf completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3aa2532ac81908e5ee5148e35f92e completed April 18, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a515ca7c8190a2d5894f4273f9c8 completed May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a58e66cc8190b52f7281e3efeca7 completed May 10, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a6734d008190bb0a5aa28826e73a completed May 10, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.