Triple

T5781851
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Henry Perkin E127575 entity
Predicate hasSibling P363 FINISHED
Object Thomas Dixon Perkin
Thomas Dixon Perkin was a 19th-century British chemist and the brother of William Henry Perkin, known for his involvement in the early synthetic dye industry.
 E547371 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: Thomas Dixon Perkin | Statement: [William Henry Perkin, hasSibling, Thomas Dixon Perkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Dixon Perkin
Context triple: [William Henry Perkin, hasSibling, Thomas Dixon Perkin]
  • A. William Henry Perkin
    William Henry Perkin was a British chemist best known for accidentally discovering the first synthetic dye, mauveine, which launched the modern chemical industry.
  • B. Wallace H. Carothers
    Wallace H. Carothers was an American chemist at DuPont best known for pioneering polymer chemistry and leading the invention of nylon.
  • C. J. H. Frankland
    J. H. Frankland is a mycologist recognized for formally describing and naming taxa within the fungal family Ophiostomataceae.
  • D. Robert Robinson
    Robert Robinson was a prominent British organic chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of natural products such as alkaloids and dyes.
  • E. Herbert Henry Dow
    Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist and inventor who founded the Dow Chemical Company and pioneered modern methods of extracting and producing chemicals.
  • 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: Thomas Dixon Perkin
Triple: [William Henry Perkin, hasSibling, Thomas Dixon Perkin]
Generated description
Thomas Dixon Perkin was a 19th-century British chemist and the brother of William Henry Perkin, known for his involvement in the early synthetic dye industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Dixon Perkin
Target entity description: Thomas Dixon Perkin was a 19th-century British chemist and the brother of William Henry Perkin, known for his involvement in the early synthetic dye industry.
  • A. William Henry Perkin
    William Henry Perkin was a British chemist best known for accidentally discovering the first synthetic dye, mauveine, which launched the modern chemical industry.
  • B. Wallace H. Carothers
    Wallace H. Carothers was an American chemist at DuPont best known for pioneering polymer chemistry and leading the invention of nylon.
  • C. J. H. Frankland
    J. H. Frankland is a mycologist recognized for formally describing and naming taxa within the fungal family Ophiostomataceae.
  • D. Robert Robinson
    Robert Robinson was a prominent British organic chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of natural products such as alkaloids and dyes.
  • E. Herbert Henry Dow
    Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist and inventor who founded the Dow Chemical Company and pioneered modern methods of extracting and producing chemicals.
  • 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_69c0980d833481908e69a80a63bbe256 completed March 23, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098ba92408190b61b115540fce941 completed March 23, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c099b4bc4481909e7cf6886e5ccbea completed March 23, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.