Triple

T9091886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arnold Machin E217906 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Machin series
The Machin series is a long-running set of British definitive postage stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth II’s profile, designed by sculptor Arnold Machin and first issued in 1967.
E777721 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: Machin series | Statement: [Arnold Machin, notableWork, Machin series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Machin series
Context triple: [Arnold Machin, notableWork, Machin series]
  • A. Machin
    Machin is a small township and municipality located in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
  • B. Napier's bones
    Napier's bones are a manually operated calculating device using numbered rods to simplify and speed up multiplication and division.
  • C. Stirling Lines
    Stirling Lines is the primary military base in Herefordshire, England that serves as the headquarters and main garrison for the British Army’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment.
  • D. Mathis
    Mathis is a supporting character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, notably appearing as an ally in the novel "Casino Royale."
  • E. Dyson series
    The Dyson series is a perturbative expansion in quantum field theory that expresses time-ordered exponentials and scattering amplitudes as an infinite series of integrals, each term corresponding to a Feynman diagram.
  • 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: Machin series
Triple: [Arnold Machin, notableWork, Machin series]
Generated description
The Machin series is a long-running set of British definitive postage stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth II’s profile, designed by sculptor Arnold Machin and first issued in 1967.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Machin series
Target entity description: The Machin series is a long-running set of British definitive postage stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth II’s profile, designed by sculptor Arnold Machin and first issued in 1967.
  • A. Machin
    Machin is a small township and municipality located in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
  • B. Napier's bones
    Napier's bones are a manually operated calculating device using numbered rods to simplify and speed up multiplication and division.
  • C. Stirling Lines
    Stirling Lines is the primary military base in Herefordshire, England that serves as the headquarters and main garrison for the British Army’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment.
  • D. Mathis
    Mathis is a supporting character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, notably appearing as an ally in the novel "Casino Royale."
  • E. Dyson series
    The Dyson series is a perturbative expansion in quantum field theory that expresses time-ordered exponentials and scattering amplitudes as an infinite series of integrals, each term corresponding to a Feynman diagram.
  • 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_69ca83d8ab5881909d8fddae363b32b1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc96b18b24819097b525ddad3a85c0 completed April 1, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d017f85c908190a4e90c22a75348b5 completed April 3, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d019652fe8819096cccb8cff431261 completed April 3, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d01a290de881909482b7eb70bef0e3 completed April 3, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:14 p.m.