Triple
T4410596
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gifford Lectures |
E94842
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLecturer |
P52523
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Polkinghorne |
E429687
|
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: John Polkinghorne | Statement: [Gifford Lectures, notableLecturer, John Polkinghorne]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Polkinghorne Context triple: [Gifford Lectures, notableLecturer, John Polkinghorne]
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A.
Sir John Polkinghorne
chosen
Sir John Polkinghorne was a British theoretical physicist and Anglican priest renowned for his influential work at the intersection of science and religion.
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B.
John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow was a British cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and popular science author known for his influential work on the anthropic principle and the mathematical structure of the universe.
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C.
George Ellis
George Ellis was a figure significant enough in local or regional history that the city of Ellis, Kansas, was named in his honor, likely for his contributions to the area's development or founding.
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D.
George Ellis
George Ellis is a South African cosmologist renowned for his work on general relativity and the large-scale structure of the universe, as well as for his collaborations with Stephen Hawking.
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E.
Martin Rees
Martin Rees is a prominent British cosmologist and astrophysicist who has served as Astronomer Royal and made influential contributions to our understanding of galaxies, black holes, and the large-scale structure of the universe.
- 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_69b34539638c8190abfea3eb29425210 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b354e4c58c8190b4190aad3095a1dd |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5f60ea0808190a59418f7911d123d |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:29 p.m.