Triple

T6327982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Difference Engine E141904 entity
Predicate designGeneration P64516 FINISHED
Object Difference Engine No. 1
Difference Engine No. 1 is Charles Babbage’s early 19th-century mechanical calculator prototype, designed to automatically compute and tabulate polynomial functions.
E586579 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: Difference Engine No. 1 | Statement: [Difference Engine, designGeneration, Difference Engine No. 1]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Difference Engine No. 1
Context triple: [Difference Engine, designGeneration, Difference Engine No. 1]
  • A. Watt steam engine
    The Watt steam engine was a vastly improved steam engine developed in the late 18th century that greatly increased efficiency and helped power the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Stephenson's Rocket
    Stephenson's Rocket is an early 19th-century steam locomotive famous for winning the 1829 Rainhill Trials and proving the viability of railway transport.
  • C. The Whitworth
    The Whitworth is a prominent art gallery and museum in Manchester, England, renowned for its collections of fine art, textiles, and wallpapers and its integration with the surrounding park.
  • D. The Bell
    The Bell is a prominent rock peak in South Africa’s Drakensberg range, known for its striking bell-like shape and challenging hiking and climbing routes.
  • E. River Don Engine
    The River Don Engine is a historic, high-powered steam engine from Sheffield’s industrial era, renowned for its role in driving heavy steel rolling mills.
  • 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: Difference Engine No. 1
Triple: [Difference Engine, designGeneration, Difference Engine No. 1]
Generated description
Difference Engine No. 1 is Charles Babbage’s early 19th-century mechanical calculator prototype, designed to automatically compute and tabulate polynomial functions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Difference Engine No. 1
Target entity description: Difference Engine No. 1 is Charles Babbage’s early 19th-century mechanical calculator prototype, designed to automatically compute and tabulate polynomial functions.
  • A. Watt steam engine
    The Watt steam engine was a vastly improved steam engine developed in the late 18th century that greatly increased efficiency and helped power the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Stephenson's Rocket
    Stephenson's Rocket is an early 19th-century steam locomotive famous for winning the 1829 Rainhill Trials and proving the viability of railway transport.
  • C. The Whitworth
    The Whitworth is a prominent art gallery and museum in Manchester, England, renowned for its collections of fine art, textiles, and wallpapers and its integration with the surrounding park.
  • D. The Bell
    The Bell is a prominent rock peak in South Africa’s Drakensberg range, known for its striking bell-like shape and challenging hiking and climbing routes.
  • E. River Don Engine
    The River Don Engine is a historic, high-powered steam engine from Sheffield’s industrial era, renowned for its role in driving heavy steel rolling mills.
  • 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_69c008d201748190917e69c41ba3f978 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c064e9532081908277f10ec380a486 completed March 22, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c60410223081908c1cf3663d4b14c0 completed March 27, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c60626724881908e6270c2d3652c16 completed March 27, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c606bd2228819082fcb63493664927 completed March 27, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:29 p.m.