Triple

T6641365
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sten submachine gun E150593 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Reginald V. Shepherd
Reginald V. Shepherd was a British firearms designer best known for co-developing the World War II–era Sten submachine gun.
 E903840 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: Reginald V. Shepherd | Statement: [Sten submachine gun, designer, Reginald V. Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Reginald V. Shepherd
Context triple: [Sten submachine gun, designer, Reginald V. Shepherd]
  • A. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • B. John L. Balderston
    John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" for stage and screen.
  • C. Jerrold R. Zacharias
    Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
  • D. Paul A. Suttell
    Paul A. Suttell is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
  • E. John H. Rowe
    John H. Rowe was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential research on Andean civilizations, particularly the Inca.
  • 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: Reginald V. Shepherd
Triple: [Sten submachine gun, designer, Reginald V. Shepherd]
Generated description
Reginald V. Shepherd was a British firearms designer best known for co-developing the World War II–era Sten submachine gun.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Reginald V. Shepherd
Target entity description: Reginald V. Shepherd was a British firearms designer best known for co-developing the World War II–era Sten submachine gun.
  • A. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • B. John L. Balderston
    John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" for stage and screen.
  • C. Jerrold R. Zacharias
    Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
  • D. Paul A. Suttell
    Paul A. Suttell is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
  • E. John H. Rowe
    John H. Rowe was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential research on Andean civilizations, particularly the Inca.
  • 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_69c687f1a3048190828b7342f7125d5c completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6aff5da8881909a512c1c82eb882a completed March 27, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e686db808190a2aa975a20e69696 completed April 18, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2c889dc81909a04c1db0509e3d9 completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f4746dbc8190a0e28202ad5e6b4f completed April 18, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2 p.m.