Triple

T3870536
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SS Great Britain E91974 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object William Patterson
William Patterson was a 19th-century British shipbuilder best known for constructing the pioneering iron steamship SS Great Britain.
 E758670 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: William Patterson | Statement: [SS Great Britain, builder, William Patterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Patterson
Context triple: [SS Great Britain, builder, William Patterson]
  • A. Robert P. Patterson
    Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
  • B. James J. Rowley
    James J. Rowley was a longtime Director of the United States Secret Service, recognized for modernizing the agency and strengthening presidential protection.
  • C. John A. Peters
    John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
  • D. John H. Vreeland
    John H. Vreeland was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New Jersey who served as a state senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Millard Powers
    Millard Powers is an American musician best known as the bassist and multi-instrumentalist for the rock band Counting Crows.
  • 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: William Patterson
Triple: [SS Great Britain, builder, William Patterson]
Generated description
William Patterson was a 19th-century British shipbuilder best known for constructing the pioneering iron steamship SS Great Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Patterson
Target entity description: William Patterson was a 19th-century British shipbuilder best known for constructing the pioneering iron steamship SS Great Britain.
  • A. Robert P. Patterson
    Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
  • B. James J. Rowley
    James J. Rowley was a longtime Director of the United States Secret Service, recognized for modernizing the agency and strengthening presidential protection.
  • C. John A. Peters
    John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
  • D. John H. Vreeland
    John H. Vreeland was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New Jersey who served as a state senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Millard Powers
    Millard Powers is an American musician best known as the bassist and multi-instrumentalist for the rock band Counting Crows.
  • 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_69aed9645f348190a9868e7cef56ab7e completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec54b0848190a8d4a0e4df7b6227 completed March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf6e2cd9cc8190accfefed5eaa0b07 completed April 3, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf7041b6bc81909924d1382b756746 completed April 3, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf714f22c48190a192c6fc32debfd6 completed April 3, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.