Triple
T17981933
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Stanger, Natal, South Africa |
E449621
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Stanger |
—
|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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 Stanger | Statement: [Stanger, Natal, South Africa, namedAfter, William Stanger]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stanger Context triple: [Stanger, Natal, South Africa, namedAfter, William Stanger]
-
A.
William Stroudley
William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
-
B.
William Ruthven
William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
-
C.
Joseph Stangerson
Joseph Stangerson is a fictional murder victim in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet," whose death helps unravel the story’s central mystery.
-
D.
John Sturge
John Sturge was a 19th-century English Quaker merchant and philanthropist known for his involvement in social reform and abolitionist causes.
-
E.
Richard Carlisle
Richard Carlisle is a wealthy, self-made newspaper magnate and ambitious suitor in the British period drama series "Downton Abbey."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stanger Target entity description: William Stanger was a 19th-century surveyor and colonial official in Natal, South Africa, after whom the town of Stanger (now KwaDukuza) was named.
-
A.
William Stroudley
William Stroudley was a prominent 19th-century British locomotive engineer best known for designing successful and influential steam engines for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
-
B.
William Ruthven
William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
-
C.
Joseph Stangerson
Joseph Stangerson is a fictional murder victim in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet," whose death helps unravel the story’s central mystery.
-
D.
John Sturge
John Sturge was a 19th-century English Quaker merchant and philanthropist known for his involvement in social reform and abolitionist causes.
-
E.
Richard Carlisle
Richard Carlisle is a wealthy, self-made newspaper magnate and ambitious suitor in the British period drama series "Downton Abbey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f9927c8190a006110c8b996e61 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4b297b7108190a676409b330ca23b |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:22 a.m.