Triple
T4382649
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ferranti |
E99164
|
entity |
| Predicate | developed |
P73
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ferranti Mercury |
E99166
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ferranti Mercury | Statement: [Ferranti, developed, Ferranti Mercury]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferranti Mercury Context triple: [Ferranti, developed, Ferranti Mercury]
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A.
Ferranti
Ferranti was a pioneering British electrical engineering and computer company known for its early work in power systems and some of the first commercial computers.
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B.
Ferranti Mark I computer
chosen
The Ferranti Mark I computer was one of the world’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computers, developed in the early 1950s from the Manchester Mark I design.
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C.
Acorn Electron
The Acorn Electron is a compact 8-bit home computer released in the 1980s as a cost-reduced, consumer-oriented version of Acorn's BBC Micro.
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D.
IBM 604
The IBM 604 was an early electromechanical electronic calculating punch introduced in the late 1940s, notable for being one of IBM’s first mass-produced programmable calculators used widely in business and scientific data processing.
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E.
Honeywell 316 minicomputer
The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b627dd58dc819090d81177849fdc63 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 3:30 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:18 p.m.