Triple

T9702147
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Acton E234802 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was a 19th-century English Catholic historian, politician, and moralist best known for the dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
E816384 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: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton | Statement: [Lord Acton, birthName, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Context triple: [Lord Acton, birthName, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton]
  • A. Louis Trevelyan
    Louis Trevelyan is the increasingly jealous and obsessive central figure of Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," whose suspicions and stubborn pride lead to the destruction of his marriage and happiness.
  • B. George Macaulay Trevelyan
    George Macaulay Trevelyan was a prominent British historian known for his influential narrative histories of England and Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Robert Hurrell Froude
    Robert Hurrell Froude was a 19th-century English Anglican priest and theologian associated with the Oxford Movement.
  • D. Charles Trevelyan
    Charles Trevelyan was a British Liberal and later Labour politician known for his roles in education reform and government service in the early 20th century.
  • E. Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
  • 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: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Triple: [Lord Acton, birthName, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton]
Generated description
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was a 19th-century English Catholic historian, politician, and moralist best known for the dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Target entity description: John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was a 19th-century English Catholic historian, politician, and moralist best known for the dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
  • A. Louis Trevelyan
    Louis Trevelyan is the increasingly jealous and obsessive central figure of Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," whose suspicions and stubborn pride lead to the destruction of his marriage and happiness.
  • B. George Macaulay Trevelyan
    George Macaulay Trevelyan was a prominent British historian known for his influential narrative histories of England and Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Robert Hurrell Froude
    Robert Hurrell Froude was a 19th-century English Anglican priest and theologian associated with the Oxford Movement.
  • D. Charles Trevelyan
    Charles Trevelyan was a British Liberal and later Labour politician known for his roles in education reform and government service in the early 20th century.
  • E. Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
  • 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_69ca84cc78808190a56f3402b7c139a7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9d7283188190bd50e18f643ad0d3 completed April 1, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f7cecd0819081929611b7881102 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a0b4dbf8819097e38c253327fc10 completed April 4, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a172ad848190a76f95c4937689d7 completed April 4, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.