Triple
T3200194
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | HMS Challenger |
E67030
|
entity |
| Predicate | commandedBy |
P1407
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Frank Tourle Thomson
Frank Tourle Thomson was a British naval officer best known for captaining the pioneering 19th-century scientific expedition ship HMS Challenger.
|
E340176
|
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: Frank Tourle Thomson | Statement: [HMS Challenger, commandedBy, Frank Tourle Thomson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Tourle Thomson Context triple: [HMS Challenger, commandedBy, Frank Tourle Thomson]
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A.
Philip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
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C.
Sinclair Thomson
Sinclair Thomson is a historian known for his scholarship on Latin American history, particularly indigenous politics and social movements in Bolivia.
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D.
Edward Thompson
Edward Thompson was a British railway engineer best known for serving as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway during the 1940s, where he oversaw the design and rebuilding of steam locomotives.
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E.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
- 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: Frank Tourle Thomson Triple: [HMS Challenger, commandedBy, Frank Tourle Thomson]
Generated description
Frank Tourle Thomson was a British naval officer best known for captaining the pioneering 19th-century scientific expedition ship HMS Challenger.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Tourle Thomson Target entity description: Frank Tourle Thomson was a British naval officer best known for captaining the pioneering 19th-century scientific expedition ship HMS Challenger.
-
A.
Philip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
-
B.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
-
C.
Sinclair Thomson
Sinclair Thomson is a historian known for his scholarship on Latin American history, particularly indigenous politics and social movements in Bolivia.
-
D.
Edward Thompson
Edward Thompson was a British railway engineer best known for serving as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway during the 1940s, where he oversaw the design and rebuilding of steam locomotives.
-
E.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
- 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_69ad8589bd988190afa7ed2bdffb7b33 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ada9ad4b1c8190bc6ad0f025f238c8 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2770201888190af6cbeded6d1ae56 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:19 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b27b0289a08190ab3b9bd1d43b91ea |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:36 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b27badbe7881909e6215965e7c6907 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:39 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.