Triple

T14006011
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Montreal (1760) E336947 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Haviland
William Haviland was an 18th-century British Army officer and general who played a significant role in the French and Indian War, particularly in the campaigns leading to the British conquest of New France.
E1073275 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 Haviland | Statement: [Siege of Montreal (1760), commander, William Haviland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Haviland
Context triple: [Siege of Montreal (1760), commander, William Haviland]
  • A. Joseph Houlton
    Joseph Houlton was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Houlton, Maine, was named.
  • B. George Harwood
    George Harwood was a British Liberal politician and businessman who served as Member of Parliament for Bolton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. William Hedley
    William Hedley was an early 19th-century English engineer best known for pioneering steam locomotive design during the formative years of railway development.
  • D. George Woodhouse
    George Woodhouse was a 19th-century English architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the Victorian era.
  • E. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • 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 Haviland
Triple: [Siege of Montreal (1760), commander, William Haviland]
Generated description
William Haviland was an 18th-century British Army officer and general who played a significant role in the French and Indian War, particularly in the campaigns leading to the British conquest of New France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Haviland
Target entity description: William Haviland was an 18th-century British Army officer and general who played a significant role in the French and Indian War, particularly in the campaigns leading to the British conquest of New France.
  • A. Joseph Houlton
    Joseph Houlton was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Houlton, Maine, was named.
  • B. George Harwood
    George Harwood was a British Liberal politician and businessman who served as Member of Parliament for Bolton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. William Hedley
    William Hedley was an early 19th-century English engineer best known for pioneering steam locomotive design during the formative years of railway development.
  • D. George Woodhouse
    George Woodhouse was a 19th-century English architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the Victorian era.
  • E. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • 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_69d81c645c5c8190b1fd16a285a1b78a completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2ed327d88190a53af5768468a8eb completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbaca41d24819086df2329ea3c4c9c completed May 6, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbae186bb881908ea17ae6b12825af completed May 6, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbaebaab508190a609fa151c686a0d completed May 6, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.