Triple
T4066303
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics |
E86330
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableHolder |
P1918
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Richard Friend
Richard Friend is a British physicist renowned for his pioneering work on organic semiconductors and plastic electronics.
|
E410490
|
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: Richard Friend | Statement: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, notableHolder, Richard Friend]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Friend Context triple: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, notableHolder, Richard Friend]
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A.
Danny Hornby
Danny Hornby is one of the children of British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby.
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B.
Julian Bell
Julian Bell was a British poet, essayist, and member of the Bloomsbury Group who was killed while serving as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng is an English actor known for his character roles in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and various Hollywood and British productions.
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D.
Jonathan Penrose
Jonathan Penrose was a British chess grandmaster and psychologist, best known for winning the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969.
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E.
Charles Beach
Charles Beach was the longtime romantic partner and principal model of American illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, serving as the inspiration for many of Leyendecker’s iconic advertising and magazine images.
- 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: Richard Friend Triple: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, notableHolder, Richard Friend]
Generated description
Richard Friend is a British physicist renowned for his pioneering work on organic semiconductors and plastic electronics.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Friend Target entity description: Richard Friend is a British physicist renowned for his pioneering work on organic semiconductors and plastic electronics.
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A.
Danny Hornby
Danny Hornby is one of the children of British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby.
-
B.
Julian Bell
Julian Bell was a British poet, essayist, and member of the Bloomsbury Group who was killed while serving as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War.
-
C.
Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng is an English actor known for his character roles in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and various Hollywood and British productions.
-
D.
Jonathan Penrose
Jonathan Penrose was a British chess grandmaster and psychologist, best known for winning the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969.
-
E.
Charles Beach
Charles Beach was the longtime romantic partner and principal model of American illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, serving as the inspiration for many of Leyendecker’s iconic advertising and magazine images.
- 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefbf58d9c8190936e453b0d397cb0 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b562b17c888190ac4771f2bb4f0d58 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5637e72948190989169b0a46916a8 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:32 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b563fc4cb081908ba0f1a799338a8c |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.