Triple

T12249538
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Premier of South Australia E291935 entity
Predicate firstHolder P291 FINISHED
Object B. T. Finniss
B. T. Finniss was an Australian politician and surveyor who became the inaugural head of government of the colony of South Australia in the mid-19th century.
 E976469 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: B. T. Finniss | Statement: [Premier of South Australia, firstHolder, B. T. Finniss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: B. T. Finniss
Context triple: [Premier of South Australia, firstHolder, B. T. Finniss]
  • A. William Rooke Creswell
    William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
  • B. J. M. Macdonnell
    J. M. Macdonnell was a Canadian academic and administrator who served as a chancellor at Carleton University.
  • C. T. H. W. Bagshawe
    T. H. W. Bagshawe was a British polar explorer and scientist known for his early 20th-century Antarctic research and participation in major expeditions.
  • D. George Selwyn
    George Selwyn was an 18th-century English politician and noted wit, famed for his macabre sense of humor and prominent role in London high society.
  • E. E. F. N. Jephcott
    E. F. N. Jephcott was a British translator best known for his influential English translations of works by critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno.
  • 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: B. T. Finniss
Triple: [Premier of South Australia, firstHolder, B. T. Finniss]
Generated description
B. T. Finniss was an Australian politician and surveyor who became the inaugural head of government of the colony of South Australia in the mid-19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: B. T. Finniss
Target entity description: B. T. Finniss was an Australian politician and surveyor who became the inaugural head of government of the colony of South Australia in the mid-19th century.
  • A. William Rooke Creswell
    William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
  • B. J. M. Macdonnell
    J. M. Macdonnell was a Canadian academic and administrator who served as a chancellor at Carleton University.
  • C. T. H. W. Bagshawe
    T. H. W. Bagshawe was a British polar explorer and scientist known for his early 20th-century Antarctic research and participation in major expeditions.
  • D. George Selwyn
    George Selwyn was an 18th-century English politician and noted wit, famed for his macabre sense of humor and prominent role in London high society.
  • E. E. F. N. Jephcott
    E. F. N. Jephcott was a British translator best known for his influential English translations of works by critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno.
  • 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_69d6ab67950c8190be08450a06228c4b completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cc50d808190a3c8d1ada31a6a91 completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e620ed88190b46d256ebe994714 completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f622a646c481908164ae5387625bb4 completed May 2, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f623f5aa608190bce3e62e08077216 completed May 2, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.