Triple
T4923628
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Whyte notation |
E110523
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Frederick Methvan Whyte
Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer best known for devising the Whyte notation system for classifying steam locomotive wheel arrangements.
|
E480112
|
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: Frederick Methvan Whyte | Statement: [Whyte notation, namedAfter, Frederick Methvan Whyte]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Methvan Whyte Context triple: [Whyte notation, namedAfter, Frederick Methvan Whyte]
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A.
Frederic C. Williams
Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
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B.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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C.
William Revell Moody
William Revell Moody was the son of famed American evangelist Dwight L. Moody and a religious leader and author who helped preserve and promote his father's evangelical legacy.
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D.
Alfred Morton Githens
Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
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E.
Frederick Etchells
Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
- 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: Frederick Methvan Whyte Triple: [Whyte notation, namedAfter, Frederick Methvan Whyte]
Generated description
Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer best known for devising the Whyte notation system for classifying steam locomotive wheel arrangements.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Methvan Whyte Target entity description: Frederick Methvan Whyte was a mechanical engineer best known for devising the Whyte notation system for classifying steam locomotive wheel arrangements.
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A.
Frederic C. Williams
Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
-
B.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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C.
William Revell Moody
William Revell Moody was the son of famed American evangelist Dwight L. Moody and a religious leader and author who helped preserve and promote his father's evangelical legacy.
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D.
Alfred Morton Githens
Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
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E.
Frederick Etchells
Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
- 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_69bd4413f9908190afcff44d7929cc4c |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6ffd46748190843fed99f02fd8d5 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:04 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be77a6e1648190921487e3d81441b3 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69be78292a988190ba51886095629b9c |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:51 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69be7892b34c819095100b14a80d6fa4 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.