Triple

T5781830
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Henry Perkin E127575 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Perkin
Perkin is a surname most famously associated with William Henry Perkin, the English chemist who discovered the first synthetic dye, mauveine.
 E545312 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: Perkin | Statement: [William Henry Perkin, familyName, Perkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Perkin
Context triple: [William Henry Perkin, familyName, Perkin]
  • A. Perkins
    Perkins is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and academia.
  • B. Talbot
    Talbot is a surname of English and Norman origin, historically associated with several notable families and individuals.
  • C. Matheson
    Matheson is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals, including acclaimed American writer Richard Matheson.
  • D. Eastman
    Eastman is a given name most notably associated with the 19th-century American painter Eastman Johnson, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • E. Perring
    Perring was a 19th-century British engineer and Egyptologist known for his early surveys and studies of Egyptian pyramids.
  • 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: Perkin
Triple: [William Henry Perkin, familyName, Perkin]
Generated description
Perkin is a surname most famously associated with William Henry Perkin, the English chemist who discovered the first synthetic dye, mauveine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Perkin
Target entity description: Perkin is a surname most famously associated with William Henry Perkin, the English chemist who discovered the first synthetic dye, mauveine.
  • A. Perkins
    Perkins is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and academia.
  • B. Talbot
    Talbot is a surname of English and Norman origin, historically associated with several notable families and individuals.
  • C. Matheson
    Matheson is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals, including acclaimed American writer Richard Matheson.
  • D. Eastman
    Eastman is a given name most notably associated with the 19th-century American painter Eastman Johnson, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • E. Perring
    Perring was a 19th-century British engineer and Egyptologist known for his early surveys and studies of Egyptian pyramids.
  • 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_69c008361fa88190aefa4dc41b051e7f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a17315881908aa12a830ba5f22b completed March 22, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07e7773888190bd8c3e1d7df62f5c completed March 22, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c086cd0904819089dbacd6c948abec completed March 23, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0873661788190847751ba82975e82 completed March 23, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.