Triple
T19880365
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Tierney Clark |
E477752
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Tierney Clark |
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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: William Tierney Clark | Statement: [William Tierney Clark, name, William Tierney Clark]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Tierney Clark Context triple: [William Tierney Clark, name, William Tierney Clark]
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A.
William Tierney Clark
chosen
William Tierney Clark was a pioneering 19th-century British civil engineer best known for designing early suspension bridges in Britain and Central Europe, including the landmark Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest.
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B.
William Smith Clark
William Smith Clark was a 19th-century American educator and agricultural scientist best known for helping found Hokkaido University in Japan and inspiring students with the phrase "Boys, be ambitious."
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C.
William Robinson Clark
William Robinson Clark was a Scottish-born theologian and academic who became a prominent professor of systematic theology at the University of Toronto in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
William Whiting Boardman
William Whiting Boardman was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held various state and local offices.
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E.
Joseph Twichell
Joseph Twichell was a 19th-century American Congregational minister and close friend and advisor to author Mark Twain.
- 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_69d8e51f32b08190b3687f4f60353250 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e658de4b288190a41bee67f570be1e |
completed | April 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.