Triple

T2609316
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Black E58735 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object William Cullen
William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
E282493 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 Cullen | Statement: [Joseph Black, influencedBy, William Cullen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cullen
Context triple: [Joseph Black, influencedBy, William Cullen]
  • A. William Price
    William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
  • B. Bernard Lintot
    Bernard Lintot was an early 18th-century English bookseller and publisher best known for issuing works by major literary figures such as Alexander Pope.
  • C. William Smellie
    William Smellie was an 18th-century Scottish printer, editor, and naturalist best known for overseeing and shaping the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • D. Thomas Beddoes
    Thomas Beddoes was an English physician, chemist, and early pioneer of pneumatic medicine known for his progressive scientific and political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • 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 Cullen
Triple: [Joseph Black, influencedBy, William Cullen]
Generated description
William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cullen
Target entity description: William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
  • A. William Price
    William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
  • B. Bernard Lintot
    Bernard Lintot was an early 18th-century English bookseller and publisher best known for issuing works by major literary figures such as Alexander Pope.
  • C. William Smellie
    William Smellie was an 18th-century Scottish printer, editor, and naturalist best known for overseeing and shaping the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • D. Thomas Beddoes
    Thomas Beddoes was an English physician, chemist, and early pioneer of pneumatic medicine known for his progressive scientific and political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • 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_69ab4ac3523881909679750c9f8c2dec completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd868acc481909444c99a621cdbec completed March 7, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af83e1efb88190b79c2c6ac0e87647 completed March 10, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af84a15b5c8190bb68b6ff313adb6c completed March 10, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af85aa5f548190a4ce1a4ff38ca5e3 completed March 10, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.