Triple

T571604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horace Darwin E13674 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company was a pioneering British firm based in Cambridge that became renowned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for designing and manufacturing precision scientific instruments for research and education.
 E71579 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: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company | Statement: [Horace Darwin, coFounded, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Context triple: [Horace Darwin, coFounded, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company]
  • A. National Physical Laboratory
    The National Physical Laboratory is the United Kingdom’s national measurement standards laboratory, renowned for its pioneering research in physics, engineering, and metrology.
  • B. Cavendish Laboratory
    Cavendish Laboratory is the University of Cambridge’s historic physics research center, renowned for groundbreaking discoveries such as the structure of DNA and the electron.
  • C. Mason Laboratory
    Mason Laboratory is an academic building at Yale University that houses facilities for the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
  • D. E.S. Mittler & Sohn
    E.S. Mittler & Sohn is a historic German publishing house known for its military and technical literature.
  • E. Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
    The Cambridge Engineering Design Centre is a research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge focused on advancing engineering design methods, tools, and practice across academia and industry.
  • 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: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Triple: [Horace Darwin, coFounded, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company]
Generated description
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company was a pioneering British firm based in Cambridge that became renowned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for designing and manufacturing precision scientific instruments for research and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Target entity description: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company was a pioneering British firm based in Cambridge that became renowned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for designing and manufacturing precision scientific instruments for research and education.
  • A. National Physical Laboratory
    The National Physical Laboratory is the United Kingdom’s national measurement standards laboratory, renowned for its pioneering research in physics, engineering, and metrology.
  • B. Cavendish Laboratory
    Cavendish Laboratory is the University of Cambridge’s historic physics research center, renowned for groundbreaking discoveries such as the structure of DNA and the electron.
  • C. Mason Laboratory
    Mason Laboratory is an academic building at Yale University that houses facilities for the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
  • D. E.S. Mittler & Sohn
    E.S. Mittler & Sohn is a historic German publishing house known for its military and technical literature.
  • E. Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
    The Cambridge Engineering Design Centre is a research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge focused on advancing engineering design methods, tools, and practice across academia and industry.
  • 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_69a4933fa4d88190a7949cc83c08c5c1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b483ac08190b3be152a7cf42011 completed March 1, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4fc8475d881909e80d60fbb50c271 completed March 2, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4fd2938288190b00cb79a10d91150 completed March 2, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4fdb5f42c81908ce753cd4283962c completed March 2, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.