Triple

T6445837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fraser Stoddart E138339 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Sir Edmund Hirst
Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
E596009 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: Sir Edmund Hirst | Statement: [Fraser Stoddart, doctoralAdvisor, Sir Edmund Hirst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Edmund Hirst
Context triple: [Fraser Stoddart, doctoralAdvisor, Sir Edmund Hirst]
  • A. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Sir John Hoddinott
    Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
  • C. Sir Charles William Somerset Marling
    Sir Charles William Somerset Marling is a British baronet and landowner best known as the father of singer-songwriter Laura Marling.
  • D. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Sir Ernest Debenham
    Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Sir Edmund Hirst
Triple: [Fraser Stoddart, doctoralAdvisor, Sir Edmund Hirst]
Generated description
Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Edmund Hirst
Target entity description: Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • A. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Sir John Hoddinott
    Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
  • C. Sir Charles William Somerset Marling
    Sir Charles William Somerset Marling is a British baronet and landowner best known as the father of singer-songwriter Laura Marling.
  • D. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Sir Ernest Debenham
    Sir Ernest Debenham was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist best known for expanding and modernizing the Debenhams department store empire in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69c008aa61ac8190bc96715ed79fe2d8 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0698d866c81909ef3e0a53833ff7d completed March 22, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c65392a6c08190b868fab12260d6c2 completed March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6553c17bc81908719ecc7db9e3960 completed March 27, 2026, 10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c655f4ee5c81909620e732b72ee694 completed March 27, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:46 p.m.