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]
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A.
Eddie Leslie
Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.