Triple
T746053
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
E15342
|
entity |
| Predicate | chiefMechanicalEngineer |
P616
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
George Ivatt
George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
|
E88868
|
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: George Ivatt | Statement: [London, Midland and Scottish Railway, chiefMechanicalEngineer, George Ivatt]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Ivatt Context triple: [London, Midland and Scottish Railway, chiefMechanicalEngineer, George Ivatt]
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A.
Sir John Fowler
Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
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B.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Sir William Cubitt
Sir William Cubitt was a prominent 19th-century English civil engineer known for major infrastructure projects, including canals, railways, and the design of the London & Blackwall Railway.
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D.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
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E.
William Armstrong
William Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including engineers, politicians, and athletes, whose specific identity depends on the context in which the name appears.
- 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: George Ivatt Triple: [London, Midland and Scottish Railway, chiefMechanicalEngineer, George Ivatt]
Generated description
George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Ivatt Target entity description: George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
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A.
Sir John Fowler
Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
-
B.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
-
C.
Sir William Cubitt
Sir William Cubitt was a prominent 19th-century English civil engineer known for major infrastructure projects, including canals, railways, and the design of the London & Blackwall Railway.
-
D.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
-
E.
William Armstrong
William Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including engineers, politicians, and athletes, whose specific identity depends on the context in which the name appears.
- 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_69a49358aa308190adbc9b5a0a2adcf9 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4aa9ba3888190889a1ad554f73c5e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:07 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a654e664e4819081badaf0ba0d86e5 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a655e0a2608190801fb67856bc2ac4 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 3:30 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a65704a964819097ad5074e83303b4 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 3:35 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.