Triple
T8351825
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Conway (footballer, born 1948) |
E196577
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Conway
John Conway is a retired Scottish footballer known for playing as a winger for clubs including Celtic and Sheffield United during the late 1960s and 1970s.
|
E727486
|
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: John Conway | Statement: [John Conway (footballer, born 1948), name, John Conway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Conway Context triple: [John Conway (footballer, born 1948), name, John Conway]
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A.
John H. Conway
John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
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B.
Bill Gosper
Bill Gosper is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in cellular automata, especially Conway’s Game of Life, and for contributions to experimental mathematics and symbolic computation.
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C.
Robert Conway
Robert Conway is the idealistic British diplomat who serves as the central protagonist in James Hilton’s novel and its film adaptation "Lost Horizon," embodying themes of escape, peace, and moral responsibility.
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D.
Richard K. Guy
Richard K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, combinatorics, and recreational mathematics, and for coauthoring influential books that popularized mathematical games and puzzles.
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E.
Ken Sallows
Ken Sallows is an Australian film editor known for his work on numerous feature films and television productions.
- 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: John Conway Triple: [John Conway (footballer, born 1948), name, John Conway]
Generated description
John Conway is a retired Scottish footballer known for playing as a winger for clubs including Celtic and Sheffield United during the late 1960s and 1970s.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Conway Target entity description: John Conway is a retired Scottish footballer known for playing as a winger for clubs including Celtic and Sheffield United during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
John H. Conway
John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
-
B.
Bill Gosper
Bill Gosper is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in cellular automata, especially Conway’s Game of Life, and for contributions to experimental mathematics and symbolic computation.
-
C.
Robert Conway
Robert Conway is the idealistic British diplomat who serves as the central protagonist in James Hilton’s novel and its film adaptation "Lost Horizon," embodying themes of escape, peace, and moral responsibility.
-
D.
Richard K. Guy
Richard K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, combinatorics, and recreational mathematics, and for coauthoring influential books that popularized mathematical games and puzzles.
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E.
Ken Sallows
Ken Sallows is an Australian film editor known for his work on numerous feature films and television productions.
- 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_69ca82f08b348190bfb7881944bbff6f |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb8019fb308190a3edc744bd473a5b |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cdc75623488190be3303f5e75784e8 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cdcc86626c8190a4206feedea24b41 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cdcde02e088190be8220f7d18d6700 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:59 p.m.