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]
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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.
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B.
John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Stevens Henslow, the 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and mentor to Charles Darwin.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century English art critic, social thinker, and writer.
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D.
John
John is the given name of the influential British evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith.
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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.