Triple

T2778653
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge E61637 entity
Predicate hasNotableHolder P1918 FINISHED
Object John Robert Seeley
John Robert Seeley was a 19th-century English historian and political essayist best known for his influential works on the British Empire and its role in world history.
E298124 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: John Robert Seeley | Statement: [Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, hasNotableHolder, John Robert Seeley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Robert Seeley
Context triple: [Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, hasNotableHolder, John Robert Seeley]
  • A. George Higginson
    George Higginson was the father of American businessman and philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, known for his role in Boston’s prominent Higginson family.
  • B. Henry Gannett
    Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
  • C. Charles Elliot
    Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
  • D. Charles E. Merriam
    Charles E. Merriam was an influential American political scientist and University of Chicago professor known for pioneering behavioralism and modern empirical approaches in political science.
  • E. Henry A. Strong
    Henry A. Strong was an American businessman and early photography industry pioneer best known as the co-founder and first president of the Eastman Kodak Company.
  • 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: John Robert Seeley
Triple: [Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, hasNotableHolder, John Robert Seeley]
Generated description
John Robert Seeley was a 19th-century English historian and political essayist best known for his influential works on the British Empire and its role in world history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Robert Seeley
Target entity description: John Robert Seeley was a 19th-century English historian and political essayist best known for his influential works on the British Empire and its role in world history.
  • A. George Higginson
    George Higginson was the father of American businessman and philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, known for his role in Boston’s prominent Higginson family.
  • B. Henry Gannett
    Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
  • C. Charles Elliot
    Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
  • D. Charles E. Merriam
    Charles E. Merriam was an influential American political scientist and University of Chicago professor known for pioneering behavioralism and modern empirical approaches in political science.
  • E. Henry A. Strong
    Henry A. Strong was an American businessman and early photography industry pioneer best known as the co-founder and first president of the Eastman Kodak Company.
  • 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_69ab4b7e43c48190997b8fc8fb1663ab completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdd83c5fc8190936b971d5577d3f9 completed March 7, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc05cf84881908e771471dbda4c8d completed March 10, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc1f3741c8190a806f8cc14fc6334 completed March 10, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc24c63188190a51f5ae9f2955f0a completed March 10, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.