Triple
T5099217
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gresham Professor of Geometry |
E114940
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sir Thomas Gresham
Sir Thomas Gresham was a 16th-century English merchant and financier best known for founding the Royal Exchange in London and formulating Gresham’s Law in economics.
|
E494904
|
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: Sir Thomas Gresham | Statement: [Gresham Professor of Geometry, foundedBy, Sir Thomas Gresham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Gresham Context triple: [Gresham Professor of Geometry, foundedBy, Sir Thomas Gresham]
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A.
George Gresham
George Gresham was an early English footballer known for playing as a forward for Thames Ironworks F.C., the club that later became West Ham United.
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B.
Thomas Smythe
Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
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C.
George Vavasor
George Vavasor is an ambitious, morally conflicted Victorian gentleman whose political aspirations and turbulent relationships drive much of the drama in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Can You Forgive Her?".
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D.
Nicholas Bacon
Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
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E.
Thomas Bodley
Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar best known for refounding and endowing the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the early 17th century.
- 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: Sir Thomas Gresham Triple: [Gresham Professor of Geometry, foundedBy, Sir Thomas Gresham]
Generated description
Sir Thomas Gresham was a 16th-century English merchant and financier best known for founding the Royal Exchange in London and formulating Gresham’s Law in economics.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Gresham Target entity description: Sir Thomas Gresham was a 16th-century English merchant and financier best known for founding the Royal Exchange in London and formulating Gresham’s Law in economics.
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A.
George Gresham
George Gresham was an early English footballer known for playing as a forward for Thames Ironworks F.C., the club that later became West Ham United.
-
B.
Thomas Smythe
Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
-
C.
George Vavasor
George Vavasor is an ambitious, morally conflicted Victorian gentleman whose political aspirations and turbulent relationships drive much of the drama in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Can You Forgive Her?".
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D.
Nicholas Bacon
Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
-
E.
Thomas Bodley
Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar best known for refounding and endowing the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the early 17th century.
- 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_69bd443fc49c819089629c00e311310c |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd7568e9c881909f114973faef6832 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:27 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69beba8977f481908b0d55a9cd28d492 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 3:34 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bebe4e61008190aa297a4b41e93cb3 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 3:50 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bebf801fa481909e885bb0d13f48b5 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 3:55 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:40 p.m.