Triple

T5502268
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Beeching E144354 entity
Predicate appointedBy P257 FINISHED
Object Ernest Marples
Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
E530540 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: Ernest Marples | Statement: [Richard Beeching, appointedBy, Ernest Marples]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Marples
Context triple: [Richard Beeching, appointedBy, Ernest Marples]
  • A. Edgar Lansbury
    Edgar Lansbury is a British-born American theatre, film, and television producer known for his work on acclaimed stage productions and as the son of actress Angela Lansbury.
  • B. Ernest Sefton
    Ernest Sefton was an author whose work inspired the film "The Clairvoyant."
  • C. Henry Flitcroft
    Henry Flitcroft was an 18th-century English Palladian architect known for designing prominent London churches and country houses.
  • D. Francis Wenham
    Francis Wenham was a 19th-century British engineer and early aeronautical pioneer who played a key role in the development of aviation theory and institutions.
  • E. Walter Bidlake
    Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
  • 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: Ernest Marples
Triple: [Richard Beeching, appointedBy, Ernest Marples]
Generated description
Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Marples
Target entity description: Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
  • A. Edgar Lansbury
    Edgar Lansbury is a British-born American theatre, film, and television producer known for his work on acclaimed stage productions and as the son of actress Angela Lansbury.
  • B. Ernest Sefton
    Ernest Sefton was an author whose work inspired the film "The Clairvoyant."
  • C. Henry Flitcroft
    Henry Flitcroft was an 18th-century English Palladian architect known for designing prominent London churches and country houses.
  • D. Francis Wenham
    Francis Wenham was a 19th-century British engineer and early aeronautical pioneer who played a key role in the development of aviation theory and institutions.
  • E. Walter Bidlake
    Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
  • 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_69c008f5a2748190bce7a39aabf87a6d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f0a512c81908f077378917e5879 completed March 22, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027a67d648190ac8d097202c8ec3d completed March 22, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c037b4e04881908d07e704f2a161bb completed March 22, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0384d023081909cb0d4ba4b80c07e completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.