Triple

T7280262
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Cadell the elder E163128 entity
Predicate businessPartner P282 FINISHED
Object William Davies
William Davies was an 18th-century London bookseller and publisher known for his partnership with prominent publisher Thomas Cadell the elder.
E655531 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 Davies | Statement: [Thomas Cadell the elder, businessPartner, William Davies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davies
Context triple: [Thomas Cadell the elder, businessPartner, William Davies]
  • A. William Davies
    William Davies is a British screenwriter known for his work on popular films such as the "How to Train Your Dragon" series and "Johnny English."
  • B. Thomas Herrick
    Thomas Herrick was a member of the Herrick family and the brother of the 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric Robert Herrick.
  • C. W. H. Davies
    W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer, best known for his simple, lyrical verse about nature and everyday life and for his association with the early 20th-century Georgian poetry movement.
  • D. Edward Bishop
    Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Francis Thompson
    Francis Thompson was a 19th-century British railway architect known for designing several major stations during the early expansion of the railway network in the United Kingdom.
  • 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 Davies
Triple: [Thomas Cadell the elder, businessPartner, William Davies]
Generated description
William Davies was an 18th-century London bookseller and publisher known for his partnership with prominent publisher Thomas Cadell the elder.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davies
Target entity description: William Davies was an 18th-century London bookseller and publisher known for his partnership with prominent publisher Thomas Cadell the elder.
  • A. William Davies
    William Davies is a British screenwriter known for his work on popular films such as the "How to Train Your Dragon" series and "Johnny English."
  • B. Thomas Herrick
    Thomas Herrick was a member of the Herrick family and the brother of the 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric Robert Herrick.
  • C. W. H. Davies
    W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer, best known for his simple, lyrical verse about nature and everyday life and for his association with the early 20th-century Georgian poetry movement.
  • D. Edward Bishop
    Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Francis Thompson
    Francis Thompson was a 19th-century British railway architect known for designing several major stations during the early expansion of the railway network in the United Kingdom.
  • 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_69c6885c5964819085b209701769877f completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb339b1081909f648864e210f98e completed March 27, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7e532a7f08190a5c0b1167dc0be44 completed March 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e5cf414c81909dd866130d91b693 completed March 28, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e7814a58819093a35c035e9b982e completed March 28, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.