Triple

T4209978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kerr E93876 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Kerr
John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
E421885 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: John Kerr | Statement: [Kerr, hasNotableBearer, John Kerr]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Kerr
Context triple: [Kerr, hasNotableBearer, John Kerr]
  • A. Wilfred Urquhart
    Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • B. Roy Urquhart
    Roy Urquhart was a British Army major-general best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during World War II, particularly in the failed Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in 1944.
  • C. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Archibald Blair
    Archibald Blair was a British naval officer and surveyor associated with the early colonial exploration and development of the Andaman Islands.
  • E. Archibald Murray
    Archibald Murray was a British Army general best known for leading early British operations in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, particularly in Egypt and Palestine.
  • 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: John Kerr
Triple: [Kerr, hasNotableBearer, John Kerr]
Generated description
John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Kerr
Target entity description: John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
  • A. Wilfred Urquhart
    Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • B. Roy Urquhart
    Roy Urquhart was a British Army major-general best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during World War II, particularly in the failed Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in 1944.
  • C. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Archibald Blair
    Archibald Blair was a British naval officer and surveyor associated with the early colonial exploration and development of the Andaman Islands.
  • E. Archibald Murray
    Archibald Murray was a British Army general best known for leading early British operations in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, particularly in Egypt and Palestine.
  • 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_69b3451743608190808f41d17ccf2650 completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34810de648190b09c5e705cf0a74e completed March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5962ec4f8819085bef81ce71aa132 completed March 14, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b596eb6c288190a63c61d5e71c609b completed March 14, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b59788ef308190a34c2f23f22a7e4d completed March 14, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:03 p.m.