Triple

T9573063
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Turner E230972 entity
Predicate sharesNameWith P15168 FINISHED
Object William Turner (merchant)
William Turner (merchant) was a historical figure known primarily as a businessman whose name is shared with several more widely recognized individuals, including the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner.
E808970 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 Turner (merchant) | Statement: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (merchant)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Turner (merchant)
Context triple: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (merchant)]
  • A. William Turner
    William Turner is a common English name shared by several notable figures, including the Romantic landscape painter J. M. W. Turner and the fictional blacksmith-turned-pirate from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series.
  • B. Captain William Turner
    Captain William Turner was a 17th-century English colonial military officer in Massachusetts best known for leading the deadly 1676 attack on Indigenous people later known as the Turner's Falls massacre during King Philip's War.
  • C. Billy Bones
    Billy Bones is the old, hard-drinking pirate whose arrival at the Admiral Benbow inn sets off the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
  • D. William Turner (physician)
    William Turner (physician) was a 16th-century English naturalist, botanist, and physician often regarded as the "father of English botany" for his pioneering works on plants and their medicinal uses.
  • E. William Turner (explorer)
    William Turner (explorer) was a 19th-century British civil servant and traveler known for his extensive journeys and detailed accounts of regions such as the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans.
  • 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 Turner (merchant)
Triple: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (merchant)]
Generated description
William Turner (merchant) was a historical figure known primarily as a businessman whose name is shared with several more widely recognized individuals, including the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Turner (merchant)
Target entity description: William Turner (merchant) was a historical figure known primarily as a businessman whose name is shared with several more widely recognized individuals, including the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner.
  • A. William Turner
    William Turner is a common English name shared by several notable figures, including the Romantic landscape painter J. M. W. Turner and the fictional blacksmith-turned-pirate from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series.
  • B. Captain William Turner
    Captain William Turner was a 17th-century English colonial military officer in Massachusetts best known for leading the deadly 1676 attack on Indigenous people later known as the Turner's Falls massacre during King Philip's War.
  • C. Billy Bones
    Billy Bones is the old, hard-drinking pirate whose arrival at the Admiral Benbow inn sets off the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
  • D. William Turner (physician)
    William Turner (physician) was a 16th-century English naturalist, botanist, and physician often regarded as the "father of English botany" for his pioneering works on plants and their medicinal uses.
  • E. William Turner (explorer)
    William Turner (explorer) was a 19th-century British civil servant and traveler known for his extensive journeys and detailed accounts of regions such as the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans.
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd998d79cc8190b94e5953915a5fa4 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1614f33108190901e3037654c50ab completed April 4, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d163f5ec3881909d179f50dca1edb6 completed April 4, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d16450213c8190a7a0c97eb32422af completed April 4, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.