Triple
T17127624
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Wasbrough Foster |
E415638
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entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object | William Wasbrough Foster |
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NE ONNED1 |
How this triple was built (2 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 Wasbrough Foster | Statement: [William Wasbrough Foster, name, William Wasbrough Foster]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wasbrough Foster Context triple: [William Wasbrough Foster, name, William Wasbrough Foster]
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A.
William Wasbrough Foster
chosen
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
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B.
Lewis R. Foster
Lewis R. Foster was an American screenwriter and director best known for his Academy Award–winning story that became the classic film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
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C.
John Watson Foster
John Watson Foster was a 19th-century American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
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D.
James Foster
James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69e3f027a3d081908fc1134b50db3d45 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0195428c6c8190a11e3f7c8f6796fe |
in_progress | May 11, 2026, 8:37 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.