Triple

T4382637
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ferranti E99164 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was a British electrical engineer and inventor who pioneered early alternating current (AC) power systems and founded the Ferranti electrical engineering company.
E436449 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: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti | Statement: [Ferranti, foundedBy, Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Context triple: [Ferranti, foundedBy, Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti]
  • A. Oswald Millbank
    Oswald Millbank is a character in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," notable as the wealthy industrialist’s son whose friendship with the aristocratic hero highlights class and political tensions in 19th-century England.
  • B. Francis Avent Gumm
    Francis Avent Gumm was an American vaudeville performer and theater owner best known as the father of actress and singer Judy Garland.
  • C. Thomas Beeby
    Thomas Beeby is an American architect associated with the New Classical movement, known for designing prominent cultural and institutional buildings.
  • D. Enrico Forlanini
    Enrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer and aviation pioneer known for his early work on helicopters, airships, and hydrofoils.
  • E. Francis Rattenbury
    Francis Rattenbury was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings in Canada, particularly in British Columbia, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Triple: [Ferranti, foundedBy, Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti]
Generated description
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was a British electrical engineer and inventor who pioneered early alternating current (AC) power systems and founded the Ferranti electrical engineering company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Target entity description: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was a British electrical engineer and inventor who pioneered early alternating current (AC) power systems and founded the Ferranti electrical engineering company.
  • A. Oswald Millbank
    Oswald Millbank is a character in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," notable as the wealthy industrialist’s son whose friendship with the aristocratic hero highlights class and political tensions in 19th-century England.
  • B. Francis Avent Gumm
    Francis Avent Gumm was an American vaudeville performer and theater owner best known as the father of actress and singer Judy Garland.
  • C. Thomas Beeby
    Thomas Beeby is an American architect associated with the New Classical movement, known for designing prominent cultural and institutional buildings.
  • D. Enrico Forlanini
    Enrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer and aviation pioneer known for his early work on helicopters, airships, and hydrofoils.
  • E. William Jaggard
    William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
  • 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_69b3454ea8f48190a49c2436624d6ef6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35262649c8190a724c9835cb7ece6 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e523cc5c8190b9884f83d433982c completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5eeadd68881909820a75aaff9d8d5 completed March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ef36f2bc8190a21e0f2fadbdd697 completed March 14, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:18 p.m.