Triple
T12848065
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shangani Patrol incident |
E307234
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Allan Wilson
Allan Wilson was a British South Africa Company officer best known for leading and dying with his men in the ill-fated Shangani Patrol during the First Matabele War.
|
E1007107
|
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: Allan Wilson | Statement: [Shangani Patrol incident, commander, Allan Wilson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Wilson Context triple: [Shangani Patrol incident, commander, Allan Wilson]
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A.
Geoffrey Simpson
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
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B.
Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
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C.
Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
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D.
Russell Gray
Russell Gray is an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist known for his work on language evolution, cultural history, and phylogenetic methods in the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
John Darwin
John Darwin is a British former teacher and prison officer who infamously faked his own death in a canoeing accident in 2002 as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
- 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: Allan Wilson Triple: [Shangani Patrol incident, commander, Allan Wilson]
Generated description
Allan Wilson was a British South Africa Company officer best known for leading and dying with his men in the ill-fated Shangani Patrol during the First Matabele War.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Wilson Target entity description: Allan Wilson was a British South Africa Company officer best known for leading and dying with his men in the ill-fated Shangani Patrol during the First Matabele War.
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A.
Geoffrey Simpson
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
-
B.
Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
-
C.
Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
-
D.
Russell Gray
Russell Gray is an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist known for his work on language evolution, cultural history, and phylogenetic methods in the humanities and social sciences.
-
E.
John Darwin
John Darwin is a British former teacher and prison officer who infamously faked his own death in a canoeing accident in 2002 as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
- 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d9701fe684819084582d1b4c809429 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f69ba1ef2481909bcf68a698afd3c6 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f69dad1f9c8190b48c40f49dbd396d |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:58 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f69e5fd19c819082f9fe0d26c56c9a |
completed | May 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:36 p.m.