Triple

T19446127
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir William Davidson Niven E486481 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Davidson Niven — 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: William Davidson Niven | Statement: [Sir William Davidson Niven, fullName, William Davidson Niven]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Davidson Niven
Context triple: [Sir William Davidson Niven, fullName, William Davidson Niven]
  • A. William Davidson Niven chosen
    William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist known for his editorial work on major scientific texts and his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Dawson
    John Dawson is a fictional character named John Dawson who appears in the work featuring the character Dawn.
  • C. John Dawson
    John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
  • D. John Dawson
    John Dawson was an American musician best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage.
  • E. John Dawson
    John Dawson was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later as a U.S. Congressman and diplomat in the early years of the United States.
  • 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_69d8e8d7ad488190a3373045029b0f3b completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6338a22608190bb31a1690ca0dab6 completed April 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:38 p.m.