Triple
T2609317
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Joseph Black |
E58735
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Cullen |
E282493
|
NE FINISHED |
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 Cullen | Statement: [Joseph Black, doctoralAdvisor, William Cullen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cullen Context triple: [Joseph Black, doctoralAdvisor, William Cullen]
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A.
William Cullen
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69af90817f8c81908c3792bd406c5ce6 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.