Triple
T7820401
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster |
E181113
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Thomas Potts
Thomas Potts was a 17th-century English legal clerk and writer best known for his detailed account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
|
E695045
|
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: Thomas Potts | Statement: [The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, author, Thomas Potts]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Potts Context triple: [The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, author, Thomas Potts]
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A.
Thomas Blakiston
Thomas Blakiston was a 19th-century English explorer and naturalist known for his work in East Asia and for identifying the biogeographical boundary in Japan now called Blakiston’s Line.
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B.
John Sewell
John Sewell is a former English footballer and manager best known for his involvement in North American soccer, including coaching in the NASL.
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C.
William Strickland
William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
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D.
William Leitch
William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
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E.
William Burnes
William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
- 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: Thomas Potts Triple: [The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, author, Thomas Potts]
Generated description
Thomas Potts was a 17th-century English legal clerk and writer best known for his detailed account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Potts Target entity description: Thomas Potts was a 17th-century English legal clerk and writer best known for his detailed account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
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A.
Thomas Blakiston
Thomas Blakiston was a 19th-century English explorer and naturalist known for his work in East Asia and for identifying the biogeographical boundary in Japan now called Blakiston’s Line.
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B.
John Sewell
John Sewell is a former English footballer and manager best known for his involvement in North American soccer, including coaching in the NASL.
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C.
William Strickland
William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
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D.
William Leitch
William Leitch was a 19th-century Scottish astronomer and clergyman noted for being an early theorist of space travel and rocketry.
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E.
William Burnes
William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
- 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_69ca828153f48190bdb27ac46f8e0745 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cafa06d28881908d62d4c02b45cedd |
completed | March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cb149bae408190a931ecbc803b0850 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:26 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cb1734159881909590ed51e8920387 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:37 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cb1a62569c81908709d814954f667e |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:41 p.m.