Triple

T11820650
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Kirkee E281116 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Brigadier-General Lionel Smith
Brigadier-General Lionel Smith was a British Army officer of the early 19th century who served in India and the Caribbean, later becoming a colonial governor in Jamaica.
E949963 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: Brigadier-General Lionel Smith | Statement: [Battle of Kirkee, commander, Brigadier-General Lionel Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier-General Lionel Smith
Context triple: [Battle of Kirkee, commander, Brigadier-General Lionel Smith]
  • A. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith
    Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening clashes of the American Revolutionary War, including the fighting around Concord’s North Bridge on April 19, 1775.
  • B. Brigadier-General John Seely
    Brigadier-General John Seely was a British soldier and politician who notably led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • C. Major-General Sidney Kirkman
    Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • D. Brigadier General George Burrows
    Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • E. Brigadier Ernest F. Benjamin
    Brigadier Ernest F. Benjamin was a senior British Army officer best known for leading the Jewish Brigade, a World War II unit composed largely of Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine.
  • 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: Brigadier-General Lionel Smith
Triple: [Battle of Kirkee, commander, Brigadier-General Lionel Smith]
Generated description
Brigadier-General Lionel Smith was a British Army officer of the early 19th century who served in India and the Caribbean, later becoming a colonial governor in Jamaica.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier-General Lionel Smith
Target entity description: Brigadier-General Lionel Smith was a British Army officer of the early 19th century who served in India and the Caribbean, later becoming a colonial governor in Jamaica.
  • A. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith
    Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening clashes of the American Revolutionary War, including the fighting around Concord’s North Bridge on April 19, 1775.
  • B. Brigadier-General John Seely
    Brigadier-General John Seely was a British soldier and politician who notably led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • C. Major-General Sidney Kirkman
    Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • D. Brigadier General George Burrows
    Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • E. Brigadier Ernest F. Benjamin
    Brigadier Ernest F. Benjamin was a senior British Army officer best known for leading the Jewish Brigade, a World War II unit composed largely of Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine.
  • 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_69d6ab26aae88190b2489efcb2a24234 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5e87e488190905bc3bb6d721e56 completed April 10, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f16705cc888190b84537bd3cfbe1c2 completed April 29, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f170034b488190a6976d3333823caa completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f17805325881908b98eb9c8fc59778 completed April 29, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.