Triple

T4848694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Standard Telecommunication Laboratories E108356 entity
Predicate notablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object George A. Hockham
George A. Hockham was a British electrical engineer and physicist best known as a co-inventor of the optical fiber for telecommunications.
 E671601 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: George A. Hockham | Statement: [Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, notablePerson, George A. Hockham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George A. Hockham
Context triple: [Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, notablePerson, George A. Hockham]
  • A. Henry W. Gerrard
    Henry W. Gerrard was an American cinematographer active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
  • B. Charles Frederick Hughes
    Charles Frederick Hughes was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the early 20th century.
  • C. Frederick L. Ashworth
    Frederick L. Ashworth was a U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission during World War II.
  • D. George D. Hay
    George D. Hay was an American radio pioneer and announcer best known for creating and developing the Grand Ole Opry, one of the most influential country music institutions in history.
  • E. Edward H. Tarrant
    Edward H. Tarrant was a 19th-century Texas military and political figure known for his role in frontier defense and early Texas governance.
  • 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: George A. Hockham
Triple: [Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, notablePerson, George A. Hockham]
Generated description
George A. Hockham was a British electrical engineer and physicist best known as a co-inventor of the optical fiber for telecommunications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George A. Hockham
Target entity description: George A. Hockham was a British electrical engineer and physicist best known as a co-inventor of the optical fiber for telecommunications.
  • A. Henry W. Gerrard
    Henry W. Gerrard was an American cinematographer active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
  • B. Charles Frederick Hughes
    Charles Frederick Hughes was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the early 20th century.
  • C. Frederick L. Ashworth
    Frederick L. Ashworth was a U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission during World War II.
  • D. George D. Hay
    George D. Hay was an American radio pioneer and announcer best known for creating and developing the Grand Ole Opry, one of the most influential country music institutions in history.
  • E. Edward H. Tarrant
    Edward H. Tarrant was a 19th-century Texas military and political figure known for his role in frontier defense and early Texas governance.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84ece7e2881909da0e81ccf8c4eb4 completed March 28, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c84faac480819096d19dbcd50aa178 completed March 28, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c850327c8c81908c3e1ccf58b5bd74 completed March 28, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.