Triple

T7403764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Puffing Billy E170814 entity
Predicate builtBy P972 FINISHED
Object Jonathan Forster
Jonathan Forster was an engineer associated with early steam locomotive development, notably involved in constructing the historic Puffing Billy engine.
 E662297 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: Jonathan Forster | Statement: [Puffing Billy, builtBy, Jonathan Forster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jonathan Forster
Context triple: [Puffing Billy, builtBy, Jonathan Forster]
  • A. Mark Forstater
    Mark Forstater is a film producer best known for producing the classic British comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
  • B. Jonathan Speirs
    Jonathan Speirs was a renowned Scottish architectural lighting designer known for co-founding influential lighting design practices and shaping the illumination of landmark buildings worldwide.
  • C. Jonathan Harris
    Jonathan Harris was an American character actor best known for his flamboyant role as Dr. Zachary Smith on the TV series "Lost in Space" and for his distinctive voice work in animation.
  • D. Paul Forster
    Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
  • E. Michael Rymer
    Michael Rymer is an Australian film and television director best known for his work on projects like "In Too Deep" and the reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" series.
  • 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: Jonathan Forster
Triple: [Puffing Billy, builtBy, Jonathan Forster]
Generated description
Jonathan Forster was an engineer associated with early steam locomotive development, notably involved in constructing the historic Puffing Billy engine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jonathan Forster
Target entity description: Jonathan Forster was an engineer associated with early steam locomotive development, notably involved in constructing the historic Puffing Billy engine.
  • A. Mark Forstater
    Mark Forstater is a film producer best known for producing the classic British comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
  • B. Jonathan Speirs
    Jonathan Speirs was a renowned Scottish architectural lighting designer known for co-founding influential lighting design practices and shaping the illumination of landmark buildings worldwide.
  • C. Jonathan Harris
    Jonathan Harris was an American character actor best known for his flamboyant role as Dr. Zachary Smith on the TV series "Lost in Space" and for his distinctive voice work in animation.
  • D. Paul Forster
    Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
  • E. Michael Rymer
    Michael Rymer is an Australian film and television director best known for his work on projects like "In Too Deep" and the reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" series.
  • 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_69c68a6010108190925e5284de022660 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2701b108190be39174d4534f231 completed March 27, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8111540f08190919bc9d9670f5ef2 completed March 28, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c811c9c5e48190a610d890780c7aa4 completed March 28, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8128e49948190822787e76b1663a6 completed March 28, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:10 p.m.