Triple

T1711205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Nottingham E36985 entity
Predicate viceChancellor P142 FINISHED
Object Shearer West
Shearer West is a British art historian and academic leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
E193696 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: Shearer West | Statement: [University of Nottingham, viceChancellor, Shearer West]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shearer West
Context triple: [University of Nottingham, viceChancellor, Shearer West]
  • A. Drysdale
    Drysdale is a surname most famously associated with Don Drysdale, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • B. Verna
    Verna is a feminine given name that gained particular recognition through film editor Verna Fields, known for her work on movies like "Jaws."
  • C. Southesk
    Southesk is the traditional war cry associated with Clan Carnegie, a Scottish noble family from Angus.
  • D. Ogden Rood
    Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
  • E. Crowfoot
    Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
  • 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: Shearer West
Triple: [University of Nottingham, viceChancellor, Shearer West]
Generated description
Shearer West is a British art historian and academic leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shearer West
Target entity description: Shearer West is a British art historian and academic leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
  • A. Drysdale
    Drysdale is a surname most famously associated with Don Drysdale, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • B. Verna
    Verna is a feminine given name that gained particular recognition through film editor Verna Fields, known for her work on movies like "Jaws."
  • C. Southesk
    Southesk is the traditional war cry associated with Clan Carnegie, a Scottish noble family from Angus.
  • D. Ogden Rood
    Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
  • E. Crowfoot
    Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
  • 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_69a88617439c819094ffb5d16a0f6307 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63149288819082e7055d0d292d1d completed March 6, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8addf4a48190b19cdb861db5eecd completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957912808190be5b6ed8d3f20535 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97accca48190bc43e94337589a5f completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.