Triple

T10335573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject An Essay on the Government of Dependencies E242993 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object George Cornewall Lewis
George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman and political thinker known for his influential writings on constitutional government and public administration.
E859227 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 Cornewall Lewis | Statement: [An Essay on the Government of Dependencies, author, George Cornewall Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Cornewall Lewis
Context triple: [An Essay on the Government of Dependencies, author, George Cornewall Lewis]
  • A. A. E. W. Mason
    A. E. W. Mason was a British novelist and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Four Feathers."
  • B. Charles Hamilton Smith
    Charles Hamilton Smith was a 19th-century British soldier, naturalist, illustrator, and zoologist known for his detailed studies and depictions of animals.
  • C. J. G. Jeffreys
    J. G. Jeffreys was a British educator best known for establishing the progressive independent Bryanston School in Dorset in the early 20th century.
  • D. Joseph John Gurney
    Joseph John Gurney was a prominent 19th-century English Quaker minister, banker, and social reformer known for his work on prison reform, abolitionism, and religious writings.
  • E. William H. Lubbock
    William H. Lubbock was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • 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 Cornewall Lewis
Triple: [An Essay on the Government of Dependencies, author, George Cornewall Lewis]
Generated description
George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman and political thinker known for his influential writings on constitutional government and public administration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Cornewall Lewis
Target entity description: George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman and political thinker known for his influential writings on constitutional government and public administration.
  • A. A. E. W. Mason
    A. E. W. Mason was a British novelist and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Four Feathers."
  • B. Charles Hamilton Smith
    Charles Hamilton Smith was a 19th-century British soldier, naturalist, illustrator, and zoologist known for his detailed studies and depictions of animals.
  • C. J. G. Jeffreys
    J. G. Jeffreys was a British educator best known for establishing the progressive independent Bryanston School in Dorset in the early 20th century.
  • D. Joseph John Gurney
    Joseph John Gurney was a prominent 19th-century English Quaker minister, banker, and social reformer known for his work on prison reform, abolitionism, and religious writings.
  • E. William H. Lubbock
    William H. Lubbock was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • 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_69d381af787481908bc401325c760a88 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4dfc425748190a3d29f81e32e948b completed April 7, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d794fe4fe481908e4c343ceeb5de25 completed April 9, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7975191ac8190b32eb6cc1f5c88aa completed April 9, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d798655c7c8190a5da5ef976102285 completed April 9, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:53 a.m.