Triple
T7030688
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge |
E163261
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Walter William Rouse Ball |
E355076
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Walter William Rouse Ball | Statement: [Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, namedAfter, Walter William Rouse Ball]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter William Rouse Ball Context triple: [Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, namedAfter, Walter William Rouse Ball]
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A.
Sir William Rouse Ball
chosen
Sir William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his influential book "Mathematical Recreations and Essays."
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B.
Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
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C.
Edwin Milton Royle
Edwin Milton Royle was an American playwright best known for his popular stage works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
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E.
William Cayley
William Cayley was a notable figure after whom Mount Cayley in British Columbia, Canada, was named, likely reflecting his prominence in regional or national history.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c6885d691c81908cf7d31083113886 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e20dbc8c8190a7446290747d8078 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:01 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c775980920819081d31b8d2843fb3d |
completed | March 28, 2026, 6:30 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:35 p.m.