Triple

T9608320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Drummond E232031 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)
Thomas Drummond was a 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and inventor best known for developing the intensely bright "Drummond light" used in surveying and early stage lighting.
E810010 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: Thomas Drummond (civil engineer) | Statement: [Drummond, notableBearer, Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)
Context triple: [Drummond, notableBearer, Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)]
  • A. James Thomson (engineer)
    James Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist known for his work on thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and the theory of tides, and as the elder brother of Lord Kelvin.
  • B. Alexander Thomson (architect)
    Alexander Thomson (architect) was a 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for his distinctive Glasgow buildings that fused classical forms with innovative structural design, earning him the nickname "Greek Thomson."
  • C. Walter Watt
    Walter Watt is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Muskegon Heights, Michigan.
  • D. Robert Rowand Anderson
    Robert Rowand Anderson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and major restorations of historic buildings.
  • E. Colin Mackenzie
    Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
  • 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: Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)
Triple: [Drummond, notableBearer, Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)]
Generated description
Thomas Drummond was a 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and inventor best known for developing the intensely bright "Drummond light" used in surveying and early stage lighting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Drummond (civil engineer)
Target entity description: Thomas Drummond was a 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and inventor best known for developing the intensely bright "Drummond light" used in surveying and early stage lighting.
  • A. James Thomson (engineer)
    James Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist known for his work on thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and the theory of tides, and as the elder brother of Lord Kelvin.
  • B. Alexander Thomson (architect)
    Alexander Thomson (architect) was a 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for his distinctive Glasgow buildings that fused classical forms with innovative structural design, earning him the nickname "Greek Thomson."
  • C. Walter Watt
    Walter Watt is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Muskegon Heights, Michigan.
  • D. Robert Rowand Anderson
    Robert Rowand Anderson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and major restorations of historic buildings.
  • E. Colin Mackenzie
    Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
  • 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_69ca8485a90c819094fe40b42fde9d70 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9a8300e48190bef51f61febc061d completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d17942504481908e7147a0f56bdf96 completed April 4, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d17a27596081909c6a2ec486480ce1 completed April 4, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d17af1d1b48190b6f8350edfa4f5ef completed April 4, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:08 p.m.