Triple

T7703485
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Battle of the Books E174555 entity
Predicate criticizes P437 FINISHED
Object William Wotton
William Wotton was a late 17th- and early 18th-century English scholar, theologian, and linguist known for his role in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and for being satirized by Jonathan Swift.
E682395 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 Wotton | Statement: [The Battle of the Books, criticizes, William Wotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wotton
Context triple: [The Battle of the Books, criticizes, William Wotton]
  • A. Edward Ward
    Edward Ward was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. Frederick Worlock
    Frederick Worlock was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and for his voice work in classic animated features.
  • D. John Whitelocke
    John Whitelocke was a British Army officer best known for his unsuccessful leadership during the early 19th-century campaigns in South America, which led to his court-martial and dismissal.
  • E. William Fenton
    William Fenton is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with the surname Fenton, but who has no widely recognized public profile or singular defining achievement.
  • 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 Wotton
Triple: [The Battle of the Books, criticizes, William Wotton]
Generated description
William Wotton was a late 17th- and early 18th-century English scholar, theologian, and linguist known for his role in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and for being satirized by Jonathan Swift.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wotton
Target entity description: William Wotton was a late 17th- and early 18th-century English scholar, theologian, and linguist known for his role in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and for being satirized by Jonathan Swift.
  • A. Edward Ward
    Edward Ward was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. Frederick Worlock
    Frederick Worlock was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and for his voice work in classic animated features.
  • D. John Whitelocke
    John Whitelocke was a British Army officer best known for his unsuccessful leadership during the early 19th-century campaigns in South America, which led to his court-martial and dismissal.
  • E. William Fenton
    William Fenton is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with the surname Fenton, but who has no widely recognized public profile or singular defining achievement.
  • 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_69c6995a72cc8190998e56daa6f8e453 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7028bcb2c8190baa4e4b14abe2cc5 completed March 27, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8acbc2024819083576f5a11c1e3a8 completed March 29, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8adebdf088190a5e663fa0a056b17 completed March 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8ae50d69881909530db8d874dace2 completed March 29, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:03 p.m.