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]
  • 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
  • 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.