Triple

T864581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang E18672 entity
Predicate illustrator P9707 FINISHED
Object John Burningham
John Burningham was a renowned British author and illustrator of children's books, celebrated for his distinctive, whimsical artwork and storytelling.
E191208 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 Burningham | Statement: [Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, illustrator, John Burningham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Burningham
Context triple: [Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, illustrator, John Burningham]
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Edward Doty
    Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • C. David Richmond
    David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
  • D. David Urquhart
    David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
  • E. Willo Perron
    Willo Perron is a Canadian creative director and designer known for his influential work on album art, stage design, and visual concepts for major music artists.
  • 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 Burningham
Triple: [Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, illustrator, John Burningham]
Generated description
John Burningham was a renowned British author and illustrator of children's books, celebrated for his distinctive, whimsical artwork and storytelling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Burningham
Target entity description: John Burningham was a renowned British author and illustrator of children's books, celebrated for his distinctive, whimsical artwork and storytelling.
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Edward Doty
    Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • C. David Richmond
    David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
  • D. David Urquhart
    David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
  • E. Willo Perron
    Willo Perron is a Canadian creative director and designer known for his influential work on album art, stage design, and visual concepts for major music artists.
  • 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_69a4938ce8688190a24bdfef82ba7d21 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac6acc148190bcc00a1e939ace77 completed March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad795f4874819087c47f1fd989ccff completed March 8, 2026, 1:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad7a4163e48190b40047939b05bf2b completed March 8, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7a996ec081909a06dc44ef5eca9d completed March 8, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.