Triple

T4180351
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cunard Line E86578 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Robert Napier
Robert Napier was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder whose innovations in steamship design helped establish Britain’s dominance in transatlantic shipping.
E419970 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: Robert Napier | Statement: [Cunard Line, founder, Robert Napier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Napier
Context triple: [Cunard Line, founder, Robert Napier]
  • A. Charles James Napier
    Charles James Napier was a British Army officer best known for leading the conquest and annexation of Sindh in India during the 1840s.
  • B. Edward Mannock
    Edward Mannock was a famed British First World War fighter ace, credited with a high number of aerial victories and celebrated for his leadership and tactical skill in air combat.
  • C. Horace Smith-Dorrien
    Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
  • D. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • E. Alfred Cannan
    Alfred Cannan is a Manx politician who has served as Chief Minister of the Isle of Man.
  • 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: Robert Napier
Triple: [Cunard Line, founder, Robert Napier]
Generated description
Robert Napier was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder whose innovations in steamship design helped establish Britain’s dominance in transatlantic shipping.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Napier
Target entity description: Robert Napier was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder whose innovations in steamship design helped establish Britain’s dominance in transatlantic shipping.
  • A. Charles James Napier
    Charles James Napier was a British Army officer best known for leading the conquest and annexation of Sindh in India during the 1840s.
  • B. Edward Mannock
    Edward Mannock was a famed British First World War fighter ace, credited with a high number of aerial victories and celebrated for his leadership and tactical skill in air combat.
  • C. Horace Smith-Dorrien
    Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
  • D. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • E. Alfred Cannan
    Alfred Cannan is a Manx politician who has served as Chief Minister of the Isle of Man.
  • 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_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0302972c819082f6e1938ed417c4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b589f89f4481909f95d3ca915bac18 completed March 14, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e0446d48190a1fd54bcc72af026 completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58e8d57cc8190a823a7cf3a3f0cdf completed March 14, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.