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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.