Triple

T545024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Stephenson E12713 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson was a pioneering 19th-century English railway and civil engineer renowned for his work on early steam locomotives and major railway bridges.
E70010 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 Stephenson | Statement: [George Stephenson, hasChild, Robert Stephenson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stephenson
Context triple: [George Stephenson, hasChild, Robert Stephenson]
  • A. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
  • B. George Stephenson
    George Stephenson was a pioneering English engineer known as the "Father of Railways" for his crucial role in developing early steam locomotives and railway systems during the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. Sir John Fowler
    Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
  • D. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. John Rennie the Elder
    John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
  • 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 Stephenson
Triple: [George Stephenson, hasChild, Robert Stephenson]
Generated description
Robert Stephenson was a pioneering 19th-century English railway and civil engineer renowned for his work on early steam locomotives and major railway bridges.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stephenson
Target entity description: Robert Stephenson was a pioneering 19th-century English railway and civil engineer renowned for his work on early steam locomotives and major railway bridges.
  • A. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
  • B. George Stephenson
    George Stephenson was a pioneering English engineer known as the "Father of Railways" for his crucial role in developing early steam locomotives and railway systems during the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. Sir John Fowler
    Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
  • D. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. John Rennie the Elder
    John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a498dfec5c81908b76d723b30dc2f0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e9b92f1c8190bdcf5ae3a07edb3a completed March 2, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4ea5488948190aab4d3ef1696844f completed March 2, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4eaa40a608190b567fb808b0a7dd1 completed March 2, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.