Triple

T2092416
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robin Milner E32698 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Christopher Strachey
Christopher Strachey was a pioneering British computer scientist whose work on programming language design and denotational semantics helped lay the foundations of modern theoretical computer science.
E232888 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: Christopher Strachey | Statement: [Robin Milner, influencedBy, Christopher Strachey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Strachey
Context triple: [Robin Milner, influencedBy, Christopher Strachey]
  • A. Stanley Unwin
    Stanley Unwin was a prominent British publisher best known for championing and publishing works such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
  • B. Stephen Cook
    Stephen Cook is a Canadian-American computer scientist renowned for founding the field of computational complexity theory, particularly through his seminal work on NP-completeness.
  • C. Henry Tizard
    Henry Tizard was a British chemist, aviation and radar pioneer, and influential government scientific adviser who played a key role in shaping the United Kingdom’s early World War II research and defense technology strategy.
  • D. Donald Davies
    Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who pioneered the concept of packet switching, a foundational technology for modern computer networks and the internet.
  • E. Hew Lorimer
    Hew Lorimer was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor known for his religious and architectural stone carvings that feature prominently on notable public buildings in Scotland.
  • 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: Christopher Strachey
Triple: [Robin Milner, influencedBy, Christopher Strachey]
Generated description
Christopher Strachey was a pioneering British computer scientist whose work on programming language design and denotational semantics helped lay the foundations of modern theoretical computer science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Strachey
Target entity description: Christopher Strachey was a pioneering British computer scientist whose work on programming language design and denotational semantics helped lay the foundations of modern theoretical computer science.
  • A. Stanley Unwin
    Stanley Unwin was a prominent British publisher best known for championing and publishing works such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
  • B. Stephen Cook
    Stephen Cook is a Canadian-American computer scientist renowned for founding the field of computational complexity theory, particularly through his seminal work on NP-completeness.
  • C. Henry Tizard
    Henry Tizard was a British chemist, aviation and radar pioneer, and influential government scientific adviser who played a key role in shaping the United Kingdom’s early World War II research and defense technology strategy.
  • D. Donald Davies
    Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who pioneered the concept of packet switching, a foundational technology for modern computer networks and the internet.
  • E. Hew Lorimer
    Hew Lorimer was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor known for his religious and architectural stone carvings that feature prominently on notable public buildings in Scotland.
  • 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_69a885eba0708190999696a45cbec816 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba774ca881909f83cf65ffeb24bb completed March 7, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae2748f09c81908d471b02a185ec1e completed March 9, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae27e4a6f88190a6af44f2cc822f31 completed March 9, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2876710c81909451744f48337998 completed March 9, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.