Triple
T19380122
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Neath Canal |
E484780
|
entity |
| Predicate | engineer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Dadford Jr. |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Thomas Dadford Jr. | Statement: [Neath Canal, engineer, Thomas Dadford Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dadford Jr. Context triple: [Neath Canal, engineer, Thomas Dadford Jr.]
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A.
Thomas Dadford Jr.
chosen
Thomas Dadford Jr. was a prominent late 18th-century British civil engineer known for designing and constructing several important canals during the early Industrial Revolution.
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B.
Ronald LaPread
Ronald LaPread is an American bassist best known for his work with the funk and soul band the Commodores during their peak years in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Roger Davis
Roger Davis is a central character in the musical "Rent," a struggling filmmaker and former rock musician grappling with love, loss, and life in New York City's East Village during the AIDS crisis.
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D.
Roger Davis
Roger Davis is an American actor best known for his roles on the television series "Dark Shadows" and "Alias Smith and Jones."
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E.
Theodore Drew III
Theodore Drew III is a fictional character who serves as one of the central romantic leads in the 1935 screwball comedy film "Hands Across the Table."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8e8d460d88190abf0591c5c9d2b0c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e61a5fc1c48190b9d8fd5f5c10ec2c |
completed | April 20, 2026, 12:21 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:35 p.m.