Triple

T925423
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of St Andrews E19971 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist best known for developing the smallpox vaccine, which laid the foundation for modern immunology and vaccination.
E109738 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: Edward Jenner | Statement: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Edward Jenner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Jenner
Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Edward Jenner]
  • A. Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • B. Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur was a pioneering French chemist and microbiologist whose work on germ theory, vaccination, and pasteurization revolutionized medicine and public health.
  • C. William Price
    William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
  • D. Thomas Beddoes
    Thomas Beddoes was an English physician, chemist, and early pioneer of pneumatic medicine known for his progressive scientific and political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Alexander Fleming
    Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928, a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine.
  • 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: Edward Jenner
Triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Edward Jenner]
Generated description
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist best known for developing the smallpox vaccine, which laid the foundation for modern immunology and vaccination.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Jenner
Target entity description: Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist best known for developing the smallpox vaccine, which laid the foundation for modern immunology and vaccination.
  • A. Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • B. Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur was a pioneering French chemist and microbiologist whose work on germ theory, vaccination, and pasteurization revolutionized medicine and public health.
  • C. William Price
    William Price was an 18th-century architect and builder active in colonial Boston, known for his work on prominent structures such as the Old North Church.
  • D. Thomas Beddoes
    Thomas Beddoes was an English physician, chemist, and early pioneer of pneumatic medicine known for his progressive scientific and political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Alexander Fleming
    Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928, a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine.
  • 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32ad9f88190b7d477d0a9a9dbc8 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee0becc0819089b3dadc618cf83c completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f3607c70819080c5e3e49ccc6de5 completed March 4, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f3d1e97881909cbb97a8ca89c574 completed March 4, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.