Triple

T7735303
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ferrier Medal and Lecture E175363 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object David Ferrier
David Ferrier was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish neurologist and psychologist known for his groundbreaking experimental work on brain localization and cortical function.
 E684890 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: David Ferrier | Statement: [Ferrier Medal and Lecture, namedAfter, David Ferrier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Ferrier
Context triple: [Ferrier Medal and Lecture, namedAfter, David Ferrier]
  • A. Robert Morton
    Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
  • B. Daniel Butterfield
    Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
  • C. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • D. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • E. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • 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: David Ferrier
Triple: [Ferrier Medal and Lecture, namedAfter, David Ferrier]
Generated description
David Ferrier was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish neurologist and psychologist known for his groundbreaking experimental work on brain localization and cortical function.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Ferrier
Target entity description: David Ferrier was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish neurologist and psychologist known for his groundbreaking experimental work on brain localization and cortical function.
  • A. Robert Morton
    Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
  • B. Daniel Butterfield
    Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
  • C. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • D. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • E. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • 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_69c6995e912c81909a49a2657103f786 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7033afbb881909b7ed2cc8f6c27c3 completed March 27, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8b53684e48190a7abda841d6cb158 completed March 29, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8b73fbcbc8190a2f789bc89ccfef3 completed March 29, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8b7f98f84819098c48d55be4fc89d completed March 29, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:06 p.m.