Triple
T7386700
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Royal Photographic Society |
E170398
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was a pioneering 19th-century British scientist and inventor best known for developing the calotype process, one of the earliest methods of creating photographic negatives.
|
E660894
|
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 Henry Fox Talbot | Statement: [Royal Photographic Society, founder, William Henry Fox Talbot]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Fox Talbot Context triple: [Royal Photographic Society, founder, William Henry Fox Talbot]
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A.
John Herschel
John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
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B.
William J. Dickson
William J. Dickson was an industrial psychologist best known for his role as a key researcher in the Hawthorne studies on workplace behavior and productivity.
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C.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering 19th-century photographer best known for his groundbreaking motion studies that led to the development of motion pictures.
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D.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was a pioneering 19th-century British photographer renowned for her soft-focus, emotive portraits and influential contributions to early art photography.
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E.
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of Eastman Kodak Company, which popularized roll film and made photography accessible to the general public.
- 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 Henry Fox Talbot Triple: [Royal Photographic Society, founder, William Henry Fox Talbot]
Generated description
William Henry Fox Talbot was a pioneering 19th-century British scientist and inventor best known for developing the calotype process, one of the earliest methods of creating photographic negatives.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Fox Talbot Target entity description: William Henry Fox Talbot was a pioneering 19th-century British scientist and inventor best known for developing the calotype process, one of the earliest methods of creating photographic negatives.
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A.
John Herschel
John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
-
B.
William J. Dickson
William J. Dickson was an industrial psychologist best known for his role as a key researcher in the Hawthorne studies on workplace behavior and productivity.
-
C.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering 19th-century photographer best known for his groundbreaking motion studies that led to the development of motion pictures.
-
D.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was a pioneering 19th-century British photographer renowned for her soft-focus, emotive portraits and influential contributions to early art photography.
-
E.
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of Eastman Kodak Company, which popularized roll film and made photography accessible to the general public.
- 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_69c68a5e2c9081909e713ce866e0060a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6f1f2bac481908ac74069182a4ce4 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c802e56fb48190976612d2a94d6ee5 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:33 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c803707cec8190bb474c959ef93d48 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:36 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c803ed9ec4819090a9481954060769 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:08 p.m.