Triple

T17122475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Froude number E415502 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Froude
William Froude was a 19th-century English engineer and naval architect who pioneered the scientific study of ship hydrodynamics and model testing, leading to the formulation of the dimensionless Froude number.
E1251188 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 Froude | Statement: [Froude number, namedAfter, William Froude]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Froude
Context triple: [Froude number, namedAfter, William Froude]
  • A. Charles L. Parsons
    Charles L. Parsons was an American chemist and longtime American Chemical Society leader recognized for his significant contributions to the chemical profession.
  • B. Sir James Plimsoll
    Sir James Plimsoll was a distinguished Australian diplomat and public servant who served as ambassador to several key countries and later as Governor of Tasmania.
  • C. Edward Routh
    Edward Routh was a 19th-century British mathematician and educator renowned for his work in stability theory and for mentoring many top Cambridge mathematicians.
  • D. William Jaggard
    William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
  • E. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • 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 Froude
Triple: [Froude number, namedAfter, William Froude]
Generated description
William Froude was a 19th-century English engineer and naval architect who pioneered the scientific study of ship hydrodynamics and model testing, leading to the formulation of the dimensionless Froude number.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Froude
Target entity description: William Froude was a 19th-century English engineer and naval architect who pioneered the scientific study of ship hydrodynamics and model testing, leading to the formulation of the dimensionless Froude number.
  • A. Charles L. Parsons
    Charles L. Parsons was an American chemist and longtime American Chemical Society leader recognized for his significant contributions to the chemical profession.
  • B. Sir James Plimsoll
    Sir James Plimsoll was a distinguished Australian diplomat and public servant who served as ambassador to several key countries and later as Governor of Tasmania.
  • C. Edward Routh
    Edward Routh was a 19th-century British mathematician and educator renowned for his work in stability theory and for mentoring many top Cambridge mathematicians.
  • D. William Jaggard
    William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
  • E. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • 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_69d886d090cc8190a39cb94992586905 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3e80ac2cc819084fab829917c950a completed April 18, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a013a1062fc8190b1c4e97f42cf3faa completed May 11, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a013ae461048190a9ced7e956802958 completed May 11, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a013b6824888190853cf36548507e1b completed May 11, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.