Triple

T5382397
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Forth and Clyde Canal E113117 entity
Predicate engineer P184 FINISHED
Object Robert Whitworth
Robert Whitworth was an 18th-century British civil engineer known for his work on major canal projects during the early development of the UK’s inland waterway network.
E516442 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: Robert Whitworth | Statement: [Forth and Clyde Canal, engineer, Robert Whitworth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Whitworth
Context triple: [Forth and Clyde Canal, engineer, Robert Whitworth]
  • A. John Whitfield
    John Whitfield was the father of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, who became the wife of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
  • B. William Whitehead
    William Whitehead was an 18th-century English poet and playwright who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1757 until his death.
  • C. William Walmsley
    William Walmsley was a British entrepreneur and co-founder of the company that evolved into the Jaguar car marque.
  • D. Peter Whitney
    Peter Whitney was an American character actor known for his burly physique and frequent roles as villains or tough guys in film and television from the 1940s through the 1970s.
  • E. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • 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: Robert Whitworth
Triple: [Forth and Clyde Canal, engineer, Robert Whitworth]
Generated description
Robert Whitworth was an 18th-century British civil engineer known for his work on major canal projects during the early development of the UK’s inland waterway network.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Whitworth
Target entity description: Robert Whitworth was an 18th-century British civil engineer known for his work on major canal projects during the early development of the UK’s inland waterway network.
  • A. John Whitfield
    John Whitfield was the father of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, who became the wife of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
  • B. William Whitehead
    William Whitehead was an 18th-century English poet and playwright who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1757 until his death.
  • C. William Walmsley
    William Walmsley was a British entrepreneur and co-founder of the company that evolved into the Jaguar car marque.
  • D. Peter Whitney
    Peter Whitney was an American character actor known for his burly physique and frequent roles as villains or tough guys in film and television from the 1940s through the 1970s.
  • E. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86d163f88190939638d44fcb24a7 completed March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf294cb9288190ab1400dae18332de completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a23ba1881909ddc549728bbc2d3 completed March 21, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2e6d5f9081908327dff0058241f0 completed March 21, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.