Triple

T9871067
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Birkenhead Docks E239956 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object George Fosbery Lyster
George Fosbery Lyster was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for his major contributions to dock and harbor works around Liverpool and the River Mersey.
E826893 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: George Fosbery Lyster | Statement: [Birkenhead Docks, architect, George Fosbery Lyster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Fosbery Lyster
Context triple: [Birkenhead Docks, architect, George Fosbery Lyster]
  • A. William Elford Leach
    William Elford Leach was a British zoologist and marine biologist of the early 19th century known for his influential work in classifying a wide range of animal groups, including birds and crustaceans.
  • B. William Dewhurst
    William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
  • C. William Henry Barlow
    William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
  • D. William Fryer Harvey
    William Fryer Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential horror and supernatural short stories.
  • E. Alfred Morton Githens
    Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
  • 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: George Fosbery Lyster
Triple: [Birkenhead Docks, architect, George Fosbery Lyster]
Generated description
George Fosbery Lyster was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for his major contributions to dock and harbor works around Liverpool and the River Mersey.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Fosbery Lyster
Target entity description: George Fosbery Lyster was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for his major contributions to dock and harbor works around Liverpool and the River Mersey.
  • A. William Elford Leach
    William Elford Leach was a British zoologist and marine biologist of the early 19th century known for his influential work in classifying a wide range of animal groups, including birds and crustaceans.
  • B. William Dewhurst
    William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
  • C. William Henry Barlow
    William Henry Barlow was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for his influential work on railway infrastructure and bridge design.
  • D. William Fryer Harvey
    William Fryer Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential horror and supernatural short stories.
  • E. Alfred Morton Githens
    Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69ca84e7506c819095cbde4ff16512bb completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb3d62628819094786a49b9bcd09b completed April 2, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1e468630c81908d5c72f70e2c6fe4 completed April 5, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1e5a99e4081909f5712a264e1b495 completed April 5, 2026, 4:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1e62c0638819091c7eb9b09ce20aa completed April 5, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:36 p.m.