Triple

T6721968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Animal Wall E153417 entity
Predicate originalSculptor P184 FINISHED
Object Thomas Nicholls
Thomas Nicholls was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the original animal sculptures for Cardiff Castle’s iconic Animal Wall.
E616935 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: Thomas Nicholls | Statement: [Animal Wall, originalSculptor, Thomas Nicholls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Nicholls
Context triple: [Animal Wall, originalSculptor, Thomas Nicholls]
  • A. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • B. Richard Nicolls
    Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
  • C. John William Nicholson
    John William Nicholson was a British physicist known for his early work on atomic theory and spectroscopy in the early 20th century.
  • D. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • E. William Copp
    William Copp was a Boston resident and early landowner after whom the historic Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the North End is named.
  • 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: Thomas Nicholls
Triple: [Animal Wall, originalSculptor, Thomas Nicholls]
Generated description
Thomas Nicholls was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the original animal sculptures for Cardiff Castle’s iconic Animal Wall.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Nicholls
Target entity description: Thomas Nicholls was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the original animal sculptures for Cardiff Castle’s iconic Animal Wall.
  • A. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • B. Richard Nicolls
    Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
  • C. John William Nicholson
    John William Nicholson was a British physicist known for his early work on atomic theory and spectroscopy in the early 20th century.
  • D. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • E. William Copp
    William Copp was a Boston resident and early landowner after whom the historic Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the North End is named.
  • 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_69c6880afb988190ad88011b48ecfcba completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d139d50c81908b19120f139deaa5 completed March 27, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7129cb39c8190beb02f0d7ea19d8a completed March 27, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c713306b5081908161d3ec6a64cc85 completed March 27, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c713de76d081908b275590d311d5fd completed March 27, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:08 p.m.