Triple

T2924570
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Government Code and Cypher School E78811 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Tommy Flowers
Tommy Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, which was used to break German codes during World War II.
E310471 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: Tommy Flowers | Statement: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Tommy Flowers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Flowers
Context triple: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Tommy Flowers]
  • A. Eddie Leslie
    Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • B. Errol Christie
    Errol Christie was a British professional boxer and former amateur champion known for captaining the English amateur boxing team and competing as a middleweight in the 1980s.
  • C. Ronnie Moran
    Ronnie Moran was a long-serving Liverpool FC coach and caretaker manager, renowned as a key figure in the club’s famed “Boot Room” era.
  • D. Tommy Dickson
    Tommy Dickson was a prolific Northern Irish forward best known as a legendary goal-scorer and iconic figure for Linfield FC in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele is a British entertainer and rock and roll pioneer who became a popular singer, actor, and stage musical star from the late 1950s onward.
  • 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: Tommy Flowers
Triple: [Government Code and Cypher School, employer, Tommy Flowers]
Generated description
Tommy Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, which was used to break German codes during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Flowers
Target entity description: Tommy Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, which was used to break German codes during World War II.
  • A. Eddie Leslie
    Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • B. Errol Christie
    Errol Christie was a British professional boxer and former amateur champion known for captaining the English amateur boxing team and competing as a middleweight in the 1980s.
  • C. Ronnie Moran
    Ronnie Moran was a long-serving Liverpool FC coach and caretaker manager, renowned as a key figure in the club’s famed “Boot Room” era.
  • D. Tommy Dickson
    Tommy Dickson was a prolific Northern Irish forward best known as a legendary goal-scorer and iconic figure for Linfield FC in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele is a British entertainer and rock and roll pioneer who became a popular singer, actor, and stage musical star from the late 1950s onward.
  • 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_69ad8b0d40b481908bc2a5fa2e73c3fb completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad97bf2df88190bd4f1e90d4656507 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0563a81788190b94fab34e41a76e7 completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b062a0f74c8190943739f4cda3c614 completed March 10, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0631e65e88190bd425222c60637db completed March 10, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:55 p.m.