Triple

T8353930
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coddington E196630 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Henry Coddington
Henry Coddington was a 19th-century Irish-born physicist and clergyman known for his work in optics and for popularizing the Coddington lens.
 E727552 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: Henry Coddington | Statement: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Henry Coddington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Coddington
Context triple: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Henry Coddington]
  • A. William C. Maybury
    William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Nathaniel Gilmore
    Nathaniel Gilmore was an early settler or notable local figure after whom the community of Gilmore, Ohio, was named.
  • C. Colonel William Crawford
    Colonel William Crawford was an 18th-century American military officer and land speculator who played a key role in the early development of what became Portsmouth, Virginia.
  • D. Lucius A. Bigelow
    Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
  • E. James Barr Ames
    James Barr Ames was an influential American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School known for shaping modern legal education and the case method of teaching law.
  • 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: Henry Coddington
Triple: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Henry Coddington]
Generated description
Henry Coddington was a 19th-century Irish-born physicist and clergyman known for his work in optics and for popularizing the Coddington lens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Coddington
Target entity description: Henry Coddington was a 19th-century Irish-born physicist and clergyman known for his work in optics and for popularizing the Coddington lens.
  • A. William C. Maybury
    William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Nathaniel Gilmore
    Nathaniel Gilmore was an early settler or notable local figure after whom the community of Gilmore, Ohio, was named.
  • C. Colonel William Crawford
    Colonel William Crawford was an 18th-century American military officer and land speculator who played a key role in the early development of what became Portsmouth, Virginia.
  • D. Lucius A. Bigelow
    Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
  • E. James Barr Ames
    James Barr Ames was an influential American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School known for shaping modern legal education and the case method of teaching law.
  • 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_69cb804756088190a766e1a486ccfdff completed March 31, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cdc75e94288190ba1905dd4ca172dd 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.