Triple

T2094283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbert Butterfield E32743 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Lord Acton
Lord Acton was a 19th-century English historian and moralist best known for his writings on liberty and his famous dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
E234802 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: Lord Acton | Statement: [Herbert Butterfield, notableWork, Lord Acton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Acton
Context triple: [Herbert Butterfield, notableWork, Lord Acton]
  • A. Henry Fawcett
    Henry Fawcett was a 19th-century British economist, Liberal politician, and advocate for women's education and suffrage.
  • B. Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc was an Anglo-French writer, historian, and poet known for his satirical verse, Catholic apologetics, and influential essays on politics and society in the early 20th century.
  • C. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • D. James Mill
    James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
  • E. Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.
  • 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: Lord Acton
Triple: [Herbert Butterfield, notableWork, Lord Acton]
Generated description
Lord Acton was a 19th-century English historian and moralist best known for his writings on liberty and his famous dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Acton
Target entity description: Lord Acton was a 19th-century English historian and moralist best known for his writings on liberty and his famous dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
  • A. Henry Fawcett
    Henry Fawcett was a 19th-century British economist, Liberal politician, and advocate for women's education and suffrage.
  • B. Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc was an Anglo-French writer, historian, and poet known for his satirical verse, Catholic apologetics, and influential essays on politics and society in the early 20th century.
  • C. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • D. James Mill
    James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
  • E. Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.
  • 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_69abba98c32081908a243bc7088a1510 completed March 7, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae305cb77c819085c4f3eb2223f749 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae30f6b7c4819080cb7cb7adc1f6d3 completed March 9, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31871d408190a4ae64372660fa79 completed March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.