Triple

T4291858
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Corpus E99611 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object John Selden
John Selden was a 17th-century English jurist, scholar, and polymath renowned for his influential works on English common law, constitutional history, and comparative legal and religious studies.
E428935 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 Selden | Statement: [Corpus, hasNotableAlumni, John Selden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Selden
Context triple: [Corpus, hasNotableAlumni, John Selden]
  • A. F. W. Maitland
    F. W. Maitland was a preeminent English legal historian whose pioneering work on medieval English law profoundly shaped the modern study of legal history.
  • B. William Blackstone
    William Blackstone was an 18th-century English jurist best known for his "Commentaries on the Laws of England," which systematized and popularized English common law.
  • C. Hugo Grotius
    Hugo Grotius was a pioneering 17th-century Dutch jurist, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as a founding figure of international law.
  • D. Samuel Pufendorf
    Samuel Pufendorf was a 17th-century German jurist, political philosopher, and early theorist of natural law whose writings significantly shaped modern ideas about international law and the state.
  • E. Frederick Lewis Maitland
    Frederick Lewis Maitland was a British Royal Navy officer best known for receiving Napoleon Bonaparte aboard HMS Bellerophon after his surrender in 1815.
  • 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 Selden
Triple: [Corpus, hasNotableAlumni, John Selden]
Generated description
John Selden was a 17th-century English jurist, scholar, and polymath renowned for his influential works on English common law, constitutional history, and comparative legal and religious studies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Selden
Target entity description: John Selden was a 17th-century English jurist, scholar, and polymath renowned for his influential works on English common law, constitutional history, and comparative legal and religious studies.
  • A. F. W. Maitland
    F. W. Maitland was a preeminent English legal historian whose pioneering work on medieval English law profoundly shaped the modern study of legal history.
  • B. William Blackstone
    William Blackstone was an 18th-century English jurist best known for his "Commentaries on the Laws of England," which systematized and popularized English common law.
  • C. Hugo Grotius
    Hugo Grotius was a pioneering 17th-century Dutch jurist, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as a founding figure of international law.
  • D. Samuel Pufendorf
    Samuel Pufendorf was a 17th-century German jurist, political philosopher, and early theorist of natural law whose writings significantly shaped modern ideas about international law and the state.
  • E. Frederick Lewis Maitland
    Frederick Lewis Maitland was a British Royal Navy officer best known for receiving Napoleon Bonaparte aboard HMS Bellerophon after his surrender in 1815.
  • 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_69b3455175088190aa79c6e03b86647e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3508035a08190b752c8edce0aff86 completed March 12, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5c73501f4819088bf87f3c4d0f23b completed March 14, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5c83c4b088190864f4bd5d32b0a29 completed March 14, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5c8a0c0bc8190beba56664874ed9b completed March 14, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:08 p.m.