Triple

T4773816
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies E105994 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Dick
William Dick was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish veterinarian and educator who established one of the world’s earliest veterinary schools in Edinburgh.
E468838 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: William Dick | Statement: [Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, foundedBy, William Dick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dick
Context triple: [Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, foundedBy, William Dick]
  • A. John Allan
    John Allan was the wealthy Richmond merchant who became Edgar Allan Poe’s foster father and played a major role in his early life and education.
  • B. William Wilson
    William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Thomas Greene
    Thomas Greene is a common English personal name shared by numerous individuals across various professions and historical periods.
  • D. Langdon Clemens
    Langdon Clemens was the firstborn son of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who died in infancy.
  • E. Thomas Melville
    Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
  • 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: William Dick
Triple: [Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, foundedBy, William Dick]
Generated description
William Dick was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish veterinarian and educator who established one of the world’s earliest veterinary schools in Edinburgh.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dick
Target entity description: William Dick was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish veterinarian and educator who established one of the world’s earliest veterinary schools in Edinburgh.
  • A. John Allan
    John Allan was the wealthy Richmond merchant who became Edgar Allan Poe’s foster father and played a major role in his early life and education.
  • B. William Wilson
    William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Thomas Greene
    Thomas Greene is a common English personal name shared by numerous individuals across various professions and historical periods.
  • D. Langdon Clemens
    Langdon Clemens was the firstborn son of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who died in infancy.
  • E. Thomas Melville
    Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
  • 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_69bd43f3074c8190937e7b0a457fe9f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6560b3448190a0debbd8da29d986 completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43c2995c81909b16baa672c4844a completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be447c21d48190ab57c8761e733ff4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45f5ebec8190b62c428b465d1bd9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.