Triple
T5491856
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rector of Imperial College London |
E123720
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHeldBy |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Penney |
E306791
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Penney | Statement: [Rector of Imperial College London, officeHeldBy, William Penney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Penney Context triple: [Rector of Imperial College London, officeHeldBy, William Penney]
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A.
William Penney
chosen
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
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B.
Sir John Wheeler
Sir John Wheeler is a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles, notably in the Northern Ireland Office.
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C.
Henry Tizard
Henry Tizard was a British chemist, aviation and radar pioneer, and influential government scientific adviser who played a key role in shaping the United Kingdom’s early World War II research and defense technology strategy.
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D.
Sir John Armitt
Sir John Armitt is a British civil engineer and public servant renowned for leading major infrastructure projects, including the delivery of key facilities for the London 2012 Olympics.
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E.
Sir John Kingman
Sir John Kingman is a prominent British mathematician and statistician renowned for his foundational work in probability theory, including the development of Kingman’s coalescent.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd464a2d908190869324ce176779c8 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd9280403c8190baaa3f7923449a37 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf6c884c0c8190b2f8345a5017c71f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:14 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m.