Triple

T6387847
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Room 40 E143744 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Alfred Ewing
Alfred Ewing was a Scottish physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in magnetism and for organizing British naval codebreaking efforts during World War I.
E592845 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: Alfred Ewing | Statement: [Room 40, employed, Alfred Ewing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Ewing
Context triple: [Room 40, employed, Alfred Ewing]
  • A. Edward Ingress Bell
    Edward Ingress Bell was a British architect known for his partnership with Sir Aston Webb on prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century public and institutional buildings in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Percy William Pickering
    Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
  • C. Gordon Hodgkin
    Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
  • D. Thomas Archer Hirst
    Thomas Archer Hirst was a 19th-century English mathematician known for his work in geometry and for his involvement in the scientific community of Victorian Britain.
  • E. W. H. Harvey
    W. H. Harvey was a 19th-century Irish botanist and phycologist known for his influential work on algae and plant taxonomy.
  • 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: Alfred Ewing
Triple: [Room 40, employed, Alfred Ewing]
Generated description
Alfred Ewing was a Scottish physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in magnetism and for organizing British naval codebreaking efforts during World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Ewing
Target entity description: Alfred Ewing was a Scottish physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in magnetism and for organizing British naval codebreaking efforts during World War I.
  • A. Edward Ingress Bell
    Edward Ingress Bell was a British architect known for his partnership with Sir Aston Webb on prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century public and institutional buildings in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Percy William Pickering
    Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
  • C. Gordon Hodgkin
    Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
  • D. Thomas Archer Hirst
    Thomas Archer Hirst was a 19th-century English mathematician known for his work in geometry and for his involvement in the scientific community of Victorian Britain.
  • E. W. H. Harvey
    W. H. Harvey was a 19th-century Irish botanist and phycologist known for his influential work on algae and plant taxonomy.
  • 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_69c008dac1ec81909cef8157ccd69962 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06869dfb88190aeb84c6c61414888 completed March 22, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c640b7e89881908e1c39d45e8a8473 completed March 27, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c643eee5fc8190bb874319d84a0d03 completed March 27, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c64481fea8819089988f558bf2cb54 completed March 27, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:34 p.m.