Triple

T5424474
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The History and Present State of Electricity E121328 entity
Predicate describesWorkOf P7040 FINISHED
Object William Watson
William Watson was an 18th-century English physician and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments and writings on electricity.
E518703 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 Watson | Statement: [The History and Present State of Electricity, describesWorkOf, William Watson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Watson
Context triple: [The History and Present State of Electricity, describesWorkOf, William Watson]
  • A. Richard Rathbone
    Richard Rathbone is a historian known for his scholarship on African history, particularly the political and social history of Ghana.
  • B. Cornelius Sherlock
    Cornelius Sherlock was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings such as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
  • C. Alfred Harker
    Alfred Harker was a British geologist and petrologist renowned for his pioneering work on igneous rocks and the geology of the British Isles.
  • D. William Railton
    William Railton was a 19th-century English architect best known for designing Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
  • E. Frederick Collin
    Frederick Collin was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals and authored the landmark opinion in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which helped establish modern product liability law.
  • 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 Watson
Triple: [The History and Present State of Electricity, describesWorkOf, William Watson]
Generated description
William Watson was an 18th-century English physician and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments and writings on electricity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Watson
Target entity description: William Watson was an 18th-century English physician and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments and writings on electricity.
  • A. Richard Rathbone
    Richard Rathbone is a historian known for his scholarship on African history, particularly the political and social history of Ghana.
  • B. Cornelius Sherlock
    Cornelius Sherlock was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings such as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
  • C. Alfred Harker
    Alfred Harker was a British geologist and petrologist renowned for his pioneering work on igneous rocks and the geology of the British Isles.
  • D. William Railton
    William Railton was a 19th-century English architect best known for designing Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
  • E. Frederick Collin
    Frederick Collin was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals and authored the landmark opinion in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which helped establish modern product liability law.
  • 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_69bd463b58d88190b258261573de9e91 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd88142b4c8190a0a9fce117aaef14 completed March 20, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3abbd1e481909ffb443812a9485a completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3b663b148190807d35421c911d74 completed March 22, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3c2b9d04819081a946e9f68c4eb2 completed March 22, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.