Triple

T6036605
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tay Rail Bridge E134436 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object William Henry Barlow
William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
E564916 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: William Henry Barlow | Statement: [Tay Rail Bridge, designer, William Henry Barlow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Barlow
Context triple: [Tay Rail Bridge, designer, William Henry Barlow]
  • A. Frederick A. P. Barnard
    Frederick A. P. Barnard was a 19th-century American educator and longtime president of Columbia College, known for his advocacy of higher education for women and for whom Barnard College is named.
  • B. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • C. William Fryer Harvey
    William Fryer Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential horror and supernatural short stories.
  • D. Henry Oscar Houghton
    Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • E. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • 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: William Henry Barlow
Triple: [Tay Rail Bridge, designer, William Henry Barlow]
Generated description
William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Barlow
Target entity description: William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
  • A. Frederick A. P. Barnard
    Frederick A. P. Barnard was a 19th-century American educator and longtime president of Columbia College, known for his advocacy of higher education for women and for whom Barnard College is named.
  • B. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • C. William Fryer Harvey
    William Fryer Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential horror and supernatural short stories.
  • D. Henry Oscar Houghton
    Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • E. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • 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_69c00875db5c819099dd5bb833ec43c2 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c056cb06508190a90beb4d9d083835 completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1138cb2388190a80562a835388dc3 completed March 23, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c11551bec88190be77db3ec96045ad completed March 23, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c115f88e948190a3ea11b33742779c completed March 23, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.