Triple

T4764492
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Museum of the History of Science E105774 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Lewis Evans
Lewis Evans was a British collector and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection led to the creation of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.
E469947 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: Lewis Evans | Statement: [Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Lewis Evans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Evans
Context triple: [Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Lewis Evans]
  • A. William Everson
    William Everson was an American poet, printer, and key figure in mid-20th-century West Coast poetry, known for his deeply spiritual, nature-centered verse and association with the Beat and San Francisco literary scenes.
  • B. James Evans
    James Evans was a 19th-century British-Canadian missionary and linguist best known for developing the syllabic writing system used by several Indigenous languages in Canada.
  • C. David Howell Evans
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • 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: Lewis Evans
Triple: [Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Lewis Evans]
Generated description
Lewis Evans was a British collector and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection led to the creation of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Evans
Target entity description: Lewis Evans was a British collector and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection led to the creation of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.
  • A. William Everson
    William Everson was an American poet, printer, and key figure in mid-20th-century West Coast poetry, known for his deeply spiritual, nature-centered verse and association with the Beat and San Francisco literary scenes.
  • B. James Evans
    James Evans was a 19th-century British-Canadian missionary and linguist best known for developing the syllabic writing system used by several Indigenous languages in Canada.
  • C. David Howell Evans
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • 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_69bd43f14cac819081c7c69803648211 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65327af48190881c25763232c368 completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43bad99c8190a170baefea057038 completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be44210b8081908d2de14acf013c54 completed March 21, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45477cbc8190bbfea83dfc64637f completed March 21, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.