Triple

T9486384
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cochran E228771 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Gemmell Cochran
William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
E838227 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: William Gemmell Cochran | Statement: [Cochran, hasNotableBearer, William Gemmell Cochran]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gemmell Cochran
Context triple: [Cochran, hasNotableBearer, William Gemmell Cochran]
  • A. Robert Alexander Cochran
    Robert Alexander Cochran is the birth name of American film and television actor Steve Cochran, known for his tough-guy roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
  • B. John Ernest Dunn
    John Ernest Dunn was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of JE Dunn Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the United States.
  • C. Walter Francis Brown
    Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
  • D. C. Donald Cook
    C. Donald Cook was an American businessman and philanthropist known for his leadership in the financial industry and civic contributions, and is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.
  • E. Oswald T. Campbell
    Oswald T. Campbell is the lonely, ailing man who finds unexpected community, healing, and hope in a small Alabama town in Fannie Flagg’s novel "A Redbird Christmas."
  • 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: William Gemmell Cochran
Triple: [Cochran, hasNotableBearer, William Gemmell Cochran]
Generated description
William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gemmell Cochran
Target entity description: William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
  • A. Robert Alexander Cochran
    Robert Alexander Cochran is the birth name of American film and television actor Steve Cochran, known for his tough-guy roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
  • B. John Ernest Dunn
    John Ernest Dunn was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of JE Dunn Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the United States.
  • C. Walter Francis Brown
    Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
  • D. C. Donald Cook
    C. Donald Cook was an American businessman and philanthropist known for his leadership in the financial industry and civic contributions, and is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.
  • E. Oswald T. Campbell
    Oswald T. Campbell is the lonely, ailing man who finds unexpected community, healing, and hope in a small Alabama town in Fannie Flagg’s novel "A Redbird Christmas."
  • 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_69ca84730a5081908de282651019bf2f completed March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd8051303881909566126a2688e41c completed April 1, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d29999e9248190b2f1900fa7ad3da5 completed April 5, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d29b28f48081909f7e0487800ebe52 completed April 5, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d29be3713c819089843c4ec2be93f1 completed April 5, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.