Triple

T3920093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Liver Building E88936 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object Walter Aubrey Thomas
Walter Aubrey Thomas was a British architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in Liverpool, including pioneering examples of reinforced concrete construction.
E435578 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: Walter Aubrey Thomas | Statement: [Royal Liver Building, architect, Walter Aubrey Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Aubrey Thomas
Context triple: [Royal Liver Building, architect, Walter Aubrey Thomas]
  • A. Alfred Brumwell Thomas
    Alfred Brumwell Thomas was a British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his grand civic buildings in the Edwardian Baroque style.
  • B. Thomas Whitrow
    Thomas Whitrow is known primarily as the son of English actor Benjamin Whitrow.
  • C. Archibald Alexander Leach
    Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • E. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • 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: Walter Aubrey Thomas
Triple: [Royal Liver Building, architect, Walter Aubrey Thomas]
Generated description
Walter Aubrey Thomas was a British architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in Liverpool, including pioneering examples of reinforced concrete construction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Aubrey Thomas
Target entity description: Walter Aubrey Thomas was a British architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in Liverpool, including pioneering examples of reinforced concrete construction.
  • A. Alfred Brumwell Thomas
    Alfred Brumwell Thomas was a British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his grand civic buildings in the Edwardian Baroque style.
  • B. Thomas Whitrow
    Thomas Whitrow is known primarily as the son of English actor Benjamin Whitrow.
  • C. Archibald Alexander Leach
    Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • E. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • 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_69aed955229881909e85e73ffab1d343 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeed5af92481908aa55bd9286a090c completed March 9, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e4ca9164819088b261d148e0d379 completed March 14, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e5d675808190a5a9767f253f0178 completed March 14, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e66837e081908ac5a0079485cd18 completed March 14, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:22 p.m.