Triple

T7253334
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Antarctic Expedition E157656 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Edgar Evans
Edgar Evans was a Welsh seaman and polar explorer best known as a member of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
E654451 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: Edgar Evans | Statement: [British Antarctic Expedition, member, Edgar Evans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar Evans
Context triple: [British Antarctic Expedition, member, Edgar Evans]
  • A. Lawrence Oates
    Lawrence Oates was a British army officer and Antarctic explorer best known for his heroic self-sacrifice during Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
  • B. Tom Crean
    Tom Crean is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing programs at Marquette University and Indiana University and for recruiting future NBA star Dwyane Wade.
  • C. Tom Crean
    Tom Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer renowned for his crucial role in several early 20th-century British expeditions, including those led by Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
  • D. Frederick Sykes
    Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
  • E. Patrick Gass
    Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
  • 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: Edgar Evans
Triple: [British Antarctic Expedition, member, Edgar Evans]
Generated description
Edgar Evans was a Welsh seaman and polar explorer best known as a member of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar Evans
Target entity description: Edgar Evans was a Welsh seaman and polar explorer best known as a member of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
  • A. Lawrence Oates
    Lawrence Oates was a British army officer and Antarctic explorer best known for his heroic self-sacrifice during Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
  • B. Tom Crean
    Tom Crean is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing programs at Marquette University and Indiana University and for recruiting future NBA star Dwyane Wade.
  • C. Tom Crean
    Tom Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer renowned for his crucial role in several early 20th-century British expeditions, including those led by Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
  • D. Frederick Sykes
    Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
  • E. Patrick Gass
    Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
  • 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_69c6882d81d4819085f7ff862951ee4f completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ea9d41908190bb76c6a5b9d5b1a2 completed March 27, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db14f6c481908084aaa49d82787d completed March 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e0659e6c81909165aaa914ec06ef completed March 28, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e0afccd88190a1c6d074f28b68e2 completed March 28, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.