Triple

T6813041
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lanchester E156682 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick W. Lanchester was a pioneering British engineer and polymath known for his foundational work in automotive engineering, aerodynamics, and the development of Lanchester’s laws of combat.
E622416 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: Frederick W. Lanchester | Statement: [Lanchester, usedBy, Frederick W. Lanchester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick W. Lanchester
Context triple: [Lanchester, usedBy, Frederick W. Lanchester]
  • A. Sir Edward Trenchard
    Sir Edward Trenchard is a fictional English aristocrat featured as a supporting character in Tom Taylor’s 1858 comic play "Our American Cousin."
  • B. Roy Fedden
    Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. Edward Thach
    Edward Thach, better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious early 18th-century English pirate who terrorized shipping in the West Indies and along the American colonies’ Atlantic coast.
  • D. J. F. C. Fuller
    J. F. C. Fuller was a British Army officer, military historian, and pioneering theorist of armored warfare whose ideas significantly influenced modern military strategy.
  • E. Alliott Verdon Roe
    Alliott Verdon Roe was a pioneering British aviation engineer and entrepreneur who founded one of the earliest and most influential aircraft manufacturing companies.
  • 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: Frederick W. Lanchester
Triple: [Lanchester, usedBy, Frederick W. Lanchester]
Generated description
Frederick W. Lanchester was a pioneering British engineer and polymath known for his foundational work in automotive engineering, aerodynamics, and the development of Lanchester’s laws of combat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick W. Lanchester
Target entity description: Frederick W. Lanchester was a pioneering British engineer and polymath known for his foundational work in automotive engineering, aerodynamics, and the development of Lanchester’s laws of combat.
  • A. Sir Edward Trenchard
    Sir Edward Trenchard is a fictional English aristocrat featured as a supporting character in Tom Taylor’s 1858 comic play "Our American Cousin."
  • B. Roy Fedden
    Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. Edward Thach
    Edward Thach, better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious early 18th-century English pirate who terrorized shipping in the West Indies and along the American colonies’ Atlantic coast.
  • D. J. F. C. Fuller
    J. F. C. Fuller was a British Army officer, military historian, and pioneering theorist of armored warfare whose ideas significantly influenced modern military strategy.
  • E. Alliott Verdon Roe
    Alliott Verdon Roe was a pioneering British aviation engineer and entrepreneur who founded one of the earliest and most influential aircraft manufacturing companies.
  • 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_69c68828b26c819090fe9df7612bbc27 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d32b012481909b73784899ec2a0d completed March 27, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723da8fe08190b507e569a2511f5a completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7266273fc8190acd2797981d3ca63 completed March 28, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c726c382308190ba3fe630f90b3d38 completed March 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:17 p.m.