Triple

T7433623
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bathgate E171551 entity
Predicate notablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object Sir James Young Simpson
Sir James Young Simpson was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish obstetrician best known for introducing chloroform as an anesthetic in surgery and childbirth.
E663540 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: Sir James Young Simpson | Statement: [Bathgate, notablePerson, Sir James Young Simpson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir James Young Simpson
Context triple: [Bathgate, notablePerson, Sir James Young Simpson]
  • A. Joseph Jackson Lister
    Joseph Jackson Lister was a pioneering 19th-century English amateur scientist and wine merchant whose improvements to the optical microscope significantly advanced the field of microscopy.
  • B. Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • C. Sir John Harvey
    Sir John Harvey was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and played a key diplomatic role in defusing tensions during the Aroostook War between the United States and British North America.
  • D. Edward Darley Boit
    Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
  • E. Dr. William Weir
    Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
  • 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: Sir James Young Simpson
Triple: [Bathgate, notablePerson, Sir James Young Simpson]
Generated description
Sir James Young Simpson was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish obstetrician best known for introducing chloroform as an anesthetic in surgery and childbirth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir James Young Simpson
Target entity description: Sir James Young Simpson was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish obstetrician best known for introducing chloroform as an anesthetic in surgery and childbirth.
  • A. Joseph Jackson Lister
    Joseph Jackson Lister was a pioneering 19th-century English amateur scientist and wine merchant whose improvements to the optical microscope significantly advanced the field of microscopy.
  • B. Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • C. Sir John Harvey
    Sir John Harvey was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and played a key diplomatic role in defusing tensions during the Aroostook War between the United States and British North America.
  • D. Edward Darley Boit
    Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
  • E. Dr. William Weir
    Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
  • 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_69c68a63491881909281f73d4d5643bf completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f327480481909c4691fd3333e2ae completed March 27, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81f1d8af48190af856b5e2438781d completed March 28, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c82076aa1481909898fd89a87d5214 completed March 28, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c821f557e08190b39d15c7c7639408 completed March 28, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:12 p.m.