Triple

T8051110
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sturgeon E187674 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Sturgeon
William Sturgeon was a 19th-century English physicist and inventor best known for creating the first practical electromagnet and contributing significantly to early electrical engineering.
E706587 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 Sturgeon | Statement: [Sturgeon, hasNotableBearer, William Sturgeon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sturgeon
Context triple: [Sturgeon, hasNotableBearer, William Sturgeon]
  • A. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • B. Joseph Henry
    Joseph Henry was a pioneering 19th-century American scientist and physicist whose work on electromagnetism significantly advanced the development of the telegraph and electrical technology.
  • C. Moritz von Jacobi
    Moritz von Jacobi was a 19th-century German-Russian engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in electric motors and electroplating.
  • D. Charles F. Brush
    Charles F. Brush was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering electric arc lighting and early electrical power systems.
  • E. Michael Faraday
    Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
  • 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 Sturgeon
Triple: [Sturgeon, hasNotableBearer, William Sturgeon]
Generated description
William Sturgeon was a 19th-century English physicist and inventor best known for creating the first practical electromagnet and contributing significantly to early electrical engineering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sturgeon
Target entity description: William Sturgeon was a 19th-century English physicist and inventor best known for creating the first practical electromagnet and contributing significantly to early electrical engineering.
  • A. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • B. Joseph Henry
    Joseph Henry was a pioneering 19th-century American scientist and physicist whose work on electromagnetism significantly advanced the development of the telegraph and electrical technology.
  • C. Moritz von Jacobi
    Moritz von Jacobi was a 19th-century German-Russian engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in electric motors and electroplating.
  • D. Charles F. Brush
    Charles F. Brush was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering electric arc lighting and early electrical power systems.
  • E. Michael Faraday
    Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
  • 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_69ca82b15e948190a62fd7af5218426a completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3f799d1481909c91039941af0e34 completed March 31, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc571b737881909ae8eadcc7894223 completed March 31, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58ae255c8190a6a2d2f335c6cc3f completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5ccee5648190a8ebdf8029eded98 completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:24 p.m.