Triple

T3503579
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Manchester encoding E74022 entity
Predicate inventedBy P632 FINISHED
Object G.E. Thomas
G.E. Thomas is an engineer and inventor best known for creating Manchester encoding, a widely used digital data transmission method.
 E363914 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: G.E. Thomas | Statement: [Manchester encoding, inventedBy, G.E. Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: G.E. Thomas
Context triple: [Manchester encoding, inventedBy, G.E. Thomas]
  • A. R. K. Pierson
    R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • B. George Ward
    George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
  • C. Thomson Mason
    Thomson Mason was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and jurist from the prominent Mason family in the 18th century.
  • D. C. T. Wilkins
    C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
  • E. Henry Sewell
    Henry Sewell was a 19th-century British-born politician who became the first person to serve as head of government in New Zealand’s parliamentary system.
  • 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: G.E. Thomas
Triple: [Manchester encoding, inventedBy, G.E. Thomas]
Generated description
G.E. Thomas is an engineer and inventor best known for creating Manchester encoding, a widely used digital data transmission method.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: G.E. Thomas
Target entity description: G.E. Thomas is an engineer and inventor best known for creating Manchester encoding, a widely used digital data transmission method.
  • A. R. K. Pierson
    R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • B. George Ward
    George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
  • C. Thomson Mason
    Thomson Mason was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and jurist from the prominent Mason family in the 18th century.
  • D. C. T. Wilkins
    C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
  • E. Henry Sewell
    Henry Sewell was a 19th-century British-born politician who became the first person to serve as head of government in New Zealand’s parliamentary system.
  • 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_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbf0c2b48190b49923137bb9e45d completed March 8, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373db933881908557d678dcdee382 completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b377a690348190a765b021bbbc820c completed March 13, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3781aaab48190a497a0929966ec12 completed March 13, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.