Triple
T2401470
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rugby World Cup |
E47779
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Webb Ellis
William Webb Ellis was a 19th-century English clergyman famously credited—likely apocryphally—with inventing rugby football by picking up the ball and running with it during a school football match.
|
E262845
|
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: William Webb Ellis | Statement: [Rugby World Cup, namedAfter, William Webb Ellis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Webb Ellis Context triple: [Rugby World Cup, namedAfter, William Webb Ellis]
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A.
Bill Beaumont
Bill Beaumont is a former England rugby union captain and British and Irish Lion who became a prominent rugby administrator and influential leader in the global game.
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B.
Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer was a prolific English footballer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned as one of the game's earliest great goal scorers and a legendary figure for both club and country.
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C.
Dave Gallaher
Dave Gallaher was a New Zealand rugby union player and captain of the legendary 1905–06 "Originals" All Blacks team, regarded as one of the early great figures in the sport’s history.
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D.
George Taylor
George Taylor was a Canadian architect best known for designing Toronto’s historic concert venue Massey Hall.
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E.
Jonny Wilkinson
Jonny Wilkinson is a former English rugby union fly-half best known for his pivotal role in England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup victory, including kicking the winning drop goal in the final.
- 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: William Webb Ellis Triple: [Rugby World Cup, namedAfter, William Webb Ellis]
Generated description
William Webb Ellis was a 19th-century English clergyman famously credited—likely apocryphally—with inventing rugby football by picking up the ball and running with it during a school football match.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Webb Ellis Target entity description: William Webb Ellis was a 19th-century English clergyman famously credited—likely apocryphally—with inventing rugby football by picking up the ball and running with it during a school football match.
-
A.
Bill Beaumont
Bill Beaumont is a former England rugby union captain and British and Irish Lion who became a prominent rugby administrator and influential leader in the global game.
-
B.
Steve Bloomer
Steve Bloomer was a prolific English footballer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned as one of the game's earliest great goal scorers and a legendary figure for both club and country.
-
C.
Dave Gallaher
Dave Gallaher was a New Zealand rugby union player and captain of the legendary 1905–06 "Originals" All Blacks team, regarded as one of the early great figures in the sport’s history.
-
D.
George Taylor
George Taylor was a Canadian architect best known for designing Toronto’s historic concert venue Massey Hall.
-
E.
Jonny Wilkinson
Jonny Wilkinson is a former English rugby union fly-half best known for his pivotal role in England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup victory, including kicking the winning drop goal in the final.
- 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_69a88a1c450c81909f61abb8b6863885 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc8caf12c8190b1482b9bc7bf9606 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:42 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aeb3e319c481908537fe278f6f0a67 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69aeb4b942b08190addc2885fbda0e41 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69aeb557247c8190920ce3a5db388800 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:56 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.