Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nick E417887 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Sir Nicholas
Sir Nicholas is an alternate name for Nick, typically used as a more formal or honorific version of the given name.
E1258336 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: Sir Nicholas | Statement: [Nick, alsoKnownAs, Sir Nicholas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Nicholas
Context triple: [Nick, alsoKnownAs, Sir Nicholas]
  • A. Sir Nicholas Treedle
    Sir Nicholas Treedle is a comic gentleman character from the early 18th-century play "The Witty Fair One," embodying the manners and foibles of Restoration-era high society.
  • B. Sir Nigel Anstruthers
    Sir Nigel Anstruthers is a domineering, embittered English baronet in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "The Shuttle," known for his cruelty, financial desperation, and destructive marriage to an American heiress.
  • C. Nicholas of Guildford
    Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
  • D. Nicholas Brembre
    Nicholas Brembre was a powerful 14th-century London merchant and Lord Mayor whose close alliance with King Richard II led to his downfall and execution during the political upheavals surrounding the Merciless Parliament.
  • E. Sir Nigel Poett
    Sir Nigel Poett was a British Army officer and senior commander who served with distinction during the Second World War and later held prominent ceremonial and administrative posts.
  • 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: Sir Nicholas
Triple: [Nick, alsoKnownAs, Sir Nicholas]
Generated description
Sir Nicholas is an alternate name for Nick, typically used as a more formal or honorific version of the given name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Nicholas
Target entity description: Sir Nicholas is an alternate name for Nick, typically used as a more formal or honorific version of the given name.
  • A. Sir Nicholas Treedle
    Sir Nicholas Treedle is a comic gentleman character from the early 18th-century play "The Witty Fair One," embodying the manners and foibles of Restoration-era high society.
  • B. Sir Nigel Anstruthers
    Sir Nigel Anstruthers is a domineering, embittered English baronet in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "The Shuttle," known for his cruelty, financial desperation, and destructive marriage to an American heiress.
  • C. Nicholas of Guildford
    Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
  • D. Nicholas Brembre
    Nicholas Brembre was a powerful 14th-century London merchant and Lord Mayor whose close alliance with King Richard II led to his downfall and execution during the political upheavals surrounding the Merciless Parliament.
  • E. Sir Nigel Poett
    Sir Nigel Poett was a British Army officer and senior commander who served with distinction during the Second World War and later held prominent ceremonial and administrative posts.
  • 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_69d886d779488190b131369541c04e7d completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42dda6e6c81908dd96f653cd2cba0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01675381a0819094ed04eac636440b completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016b8609dc8190bfd3e1b6ff715d65 completed May 11, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016c5018e48190974c124c3433bcc6 completed May 11, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m.