Triple

T9702149
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Acton E234802 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Acton
Acton is an English surname most famously associated with Lord Acton, the 19th-century historian and moralist known for the dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
 E826396 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: Acton | Statement: [Lord Acton, familyName, Acton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Acton
Context triple: [Lord Acton, familyName, Acton]
  • A. Acton
    Acton is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential communities, conservation land, and commuter access to Boston.
  • B. Acton
    Acton is an inner suburb of Canberra, Australia, known for housing major national institutions such as the Australian National University and several key cultural and research facilities.
  • C. Acton
    Acton is a village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
  • D. Acton
    Acton is a largely residential and commercial district in the London Borough of Ealing, known for its diverse community and good transport links into central London.
  • E. Acton
    Acton is a small community within the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada, historically known for its leather and tanning industry.
  • 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: Acton
Triple: [Lord Acton, familyName, Acton]
Generated description
Acton is an English surname most famously associated with Lord Acton, the 19th-century historian and moralist 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: Acton
Target entity description: Acton is an English surname most famously associated with Lord Acton, the 19th-century historian and moralist known for the dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
  • A. Acton
    Acton is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential communities, conservation land, and commuter access to Boston.
  • B. Acton
    Acton is an inner suburb of Canberra, Australia, known for housing major national institutions such as the Australian National University and several key cultural and research facilities.
  • C. Acton
    Acton is a village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
  • D. Acton
    Acton is a largely residential and commercial district in the London Borough of Ealing, known for its diverse community and good transport links into central London.
  • E. Acton
    Acton is a small community within the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada, historically known for its leather and tanning industry.
  • 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_69d1e3f844008190b73215136dae6fcd completed April 5, 2026, 4:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1e5d0da7081908e14fe4bc6623ea5 completed April 5, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1e6af89f88190abe63f8172182f58 completed April 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.