Triple

T17135391
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Menin Gate E415822 entity
Predicate sculptor P184 FINISHED
Object William Reid Dick
William Reid Dick was a prominent Scottish sculptor of the early 20th century, renowned for his monumental public works and war memorials in Britain and abroad.
E1254033 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 Reid Dick | Statement: [Menin Gate, sculptor, William Reid Dick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Reid Dick
Context triple: [Menin Gate, sculptor, William Reid Dick]
  • A. William Nathan Boyd
    William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • B. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • C. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • D. John Bowie Ferguson
    John Bowie Ferguson is an individual whose full legal name distinguishes him from others sharing the Ferguson surname, including his father, John Ferguson Sr.
  • E. Henry Robinson
    Henry Robinson was an English clergyman and theologian active in early 17th-century religious affairs, notably involved in high-level ecclesiastical discussions under James I.
  • 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 Reid Dick
Triple: [Menin Gate, sculptor, William Reid Dick]
Generated description
William Reid Dick was a prominent Scottish sculptor of the early 20th century, renowned for his monumental public works and war memorials in Britain and abroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Reid Dick
Target entity description: William Reid Dick was a prominent Scottish sculptor of the early 20th century, renowned for his monumental public works and war memorials in Britain and abroad.
  • A. William Nathan Boyd
    William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • B. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • C. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • D. John Bowie Ferguson
    John Bowie Ferguson is an individual whose full legal name distinguishes him from others sharing the Ferguson surname, including his father, John Ferguson Sr.
  • E. Henry Robinson
    Henry Robinson was an English clergyman and theologian active in early 17th-century religious affairs, notably involved in high-level ecclesiastical discussions under James I.
  • 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_69d886d15af4819092f92f8a129763e6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3f02dca8881908efd73741397a207 completed April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01482cd918819082d18b3cb76394cb completed May 11, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01498352648190a28be189af2263ea completed May 11, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a014a3e36588190b15fa0fe958e2d9e completed May 11, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.