Triple

T13065983
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Upington E329324 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Upington
Thomas Upington was a 19th-century South African politician who served as Attorney General and later Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.
E1019132 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: Thomas Upington | Statement: [Upington, namedAfter, Thomas Upington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Upington
Context triple: [Upington, namedAfter, Thomas Upington]
  • A. Charles Pelham
    Charles Pelham is the given name of Charles Pelham Villiers, a long-serving 19th-century British Liberal politician known for his advocacy of free trade and the repeal of the Corn Laws.
  • B. Francis Egerton
    Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, was an 18th-century English nobleman famed as the "father of inland navigation" for pioneering canal construction that helped spark the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
  • C. Sir Robert Talbot
    Sir Robert Talbot was an Irish Catholic landowner and politician from the prominent Talbot family, active during the turbulent mid-17th-century conflicts in Ireland.
  • D. Henry Parish II
    Henry Parish II was the husband of influential American interior designer Sister Parish and a member of the prominent Parish family.
  • E. William Prince
    William Prince was an American film, stage, and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his versatile character roles in Hollywood and on Broadway.
  • 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: Thomas Upington
Triple: [Upington, namedAfter, Thomas Upington]
Generated description
Thomas Upington was a 19th-century South African politician who served as Attorney General and later Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Upington
Target entity description: Thomas Upington was a 19th-century South African politician who served as Attorney General and later Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.
  • A. Charles Pelham
    Charles Pelham is the given name of Charles Pelham Villiers, a long-serving 19th-century British Liberal politician known for his advocacy of free trade and the repeal of the Corn Laws.
  • B. Francis Egerton
    Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, was an 18th-century English nobleman famed as the "father of inland navigation" for pioneering canal construction that helped spark the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
  • C. Sir Robert Talbot
    Sir Robert Talbot was an Irish Catholic landowner and politician from the prominent Talbot family, active during the turbulent mid-17th-century conflicts in Ireland.
  • D. Henry Parish II
    Henry Parish II was the husband of influential American interior designer Sister Parish and a member of the prominent Parish family.
  • E. William Prince
    William Prince was an American film, stage, and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his versatile character roles in Hollywood and on Broadway.
  • 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_69d80771749c81909a6d9197b9504872 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d980eb81948190b27eb9ae19978079 completed April 10, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6cbe630808190a9a3481127bbaa86 completed May 3, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6d039254881909927b58225f194de completed May 3, 2026, 4:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6d0d218d4819080273a151a0890d3 completed May 3, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:59 p.m.