Triple

T12424529
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Butler E296862 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object William Cox
William Cox is an Australian politician who served as the 26th Governor of Tasmania.
 E981591 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: William Cox | Statement: [Richard Butler, succeededBy, William Cox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Cox
Context triple: [Richard Butler, succeededBy, William Cox]
  • A. Phineas Banning
    Phineas Banning was a 19th-century American businessman and entrepreneur known as the "Father of the Port of Los Angeles" for his pivotal role in developing the harbor at San Pedro.
  • B. George Chaffey
    George Chaffey was a Canadian-born engineer and land developer known for pioneering irrigation colonies and urban planning projects in California and Australia.
  • C. John Davis
    John Davis is a prominent American film and television producer known for founding Davis Entertainment and producing numerous major studio movies and series.
  • D. John Davis
    John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • E. John Davis
    John Davis was a British special operations officer who served with the World War II clandestine unit Force 136, conducting covert missions in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia.
  • 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: William Cox
Triple: [Richard Butler, succeededBy, William Cox]
Generated description
William Cox is an Australian politician who served as the 26th Governor of Tasmania.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Cox
Target entity description: William Cox is an Australian politician who served as the 26th Governor of Tasmania.
  • A. Phineas Banning
    Phineas Banning was a 19th-century American businessman and entrepreneur known as the "Father of the Port of Los Angeles" for his pivotal role in developing the harbor at San Pedro.
  • B. George Chaffey
    George Chaffey was a Canadian-born engineer and land developer known for pioneering irrigation colonies and urban planning projects in California and Australia.
  • C. John Davis
    John Davis is a prominent American film and television producer known for founding Davis Entertainment and producing numerous major studio movies and series.
  • D. John Davis
    John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • E. John Davis
    John Davis was a British special operations officer who served with the World War II clandestine unit Force 136, conducting covert missions in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia.
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d7b6bd08190b30beba393a5b1e7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6349716fc8190997b54a50d29827a completed May 2, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6356ce3f4819087d1703db655cbb4 completed May 2, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f63697d5b8819094728df472eb1914 completed May 2, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.