Triple
T6036606
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tay Rail Bridge |
E134436
|
entity |
| Predicate | engineer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Henry Barlow |
E564916
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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, engineer, 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, engineer, William Henry Barlow]
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A.
William Henry Barlow
chosen
William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
William Fryer Harvey
William Fryer Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential horror and supernatural short stories.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c11cf60d00819084bc8405595f7989 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 10:59 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.