Triple

T6898892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Leitch E159441 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Leitch
William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
E658966 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: William Leitch | Statement: [Leitch, hasNotableBearer, William Leitch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Leitch
Context triple: [Leitch, hasNotableBearer, William Leitch]
  • A. William Nigh
    William Nigh was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era through the 1940s, known for his work on low-budget genre films.
  • B. Edwin Broun
    Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Norrie
    William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • D. John Gilleland
    John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • E. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • 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: William Leitch
Triple: [Leitch, hasNotableBearer, William Leitch]
Generated description
William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Leitch
Target entity description: William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
  • A. William Nigh
    William Nigh was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era through the 1940s, known for his work on low-budget genre films.
  • B. Edwin Broun
    Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Norrie
    William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • D. John Gilleland
    John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • E. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • 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_69c6883822e0819091e321526f20ae0a completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d95d67448190857f36b8115b03f6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7fa5cf190819093f3dc9513361e49 completed March 28, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fbafa2a08190bcfc407d1a6c0d2b completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fc14691481909d8d029c5c42cd14 completed March 28, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:24 p.m.