Triple

T9704274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cecil Sharp E234857 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Herbert C. MacIlwaine
Herbert C. MacIlwaine was an English musician and arranger known for collaborating with folk song collector Cecil Sharp on influential early 20th-century publications of traditional English music.
 E847076 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: Herbert C. MacIlwaine | Statement: [Cecil Sharp, coAuthor, Herbert C. MacIlwaine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Herbert C. MacIlwaine
Context triple: [Cecil Sharp, coAuthor, Herbert C. MacIlwaine]
  • A. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • B. Norman Z. McLeod
    Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
  • C. Ernest J. H. Mackay
    Ernest J. H. Mackay was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering excavations of major Indus Valley Civilization sites in the early 20th century.
  • D. Woodrow Wilson Smith
    Woodrow Wilson Smith is a pseudonym used by American science fiction author Henry Kuttner.
  • E. J. Norman Collie
    J. Norman Collie was a British chemist and pioneering mountaineer known for his extensive explorations and first ascents in the Canadian Rockies.
  • 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: Herbert C. MacIlwaine
Triple: [Cecil Sharp, coAuthor, Herbert C. MacIlwaine]
Generated description
Herbert C. MacIlwaine was an English musician and arranger known for collaborating with folk song collector Cecil Sharp on influential early 20th-century publications of traditional English music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Herbert C. MacIlwaine
Target entity description: Herbert C. MacIlwaine was an English musician and arranger known for collaborating with folk song collector Cecil Sharp on influential early 20th-century publications of traditional English music.
  • A. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • B. Norman Z. McLeod
    Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
  • C. Ernest J. H. Mackay
    Ernest J. H. Mackay was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering excavations of major Indus Valley Civilization sites in the early 20th century.
  • D. Woodrow Wilson Smith
    Woodrow Wilson Smith is a pseudonym used by American science fiction author Henry Kuttner.
  • E. J. Norman Collie
    J. Norman Collie was a British chemist and pioneering mountaineer known for his extensive explorations and first ascents in the Canadian Rockies.
  • 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_69cd9d74afb4819084174aab5bcdb6e0 completed April 1, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d3170e01408190969fdd8c366f9276 completed April 6, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d3183a8410819094e81fe9f43717b2 completed April 6, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d318adfcb081909a3567f5327765ab completed April 6, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.