Triple

T15536841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor of Portsmouth E370368 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object Sir William Thwaites
Sir William Thwaites was a British military officer who served as a senior commander in the Royal Marines and held prominent administrative posts in the early 20th century.
E1162482 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: Sir William Thwaites | Statement: [Governor of Portsmouth, officeHeldBy, Sir William Thwaites]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Thwaites
Context triple: [Governor of Portsmouth, officeHeldBy, Sir William Thwaites]
  • A. Sir William Heseltine
    Sir William Heseltine is an Australian-born former royal courtier who served in senior roles within the British Royal Household, including as a close adviser to Queen Elizabeth II.
  • B. Cuthbert Woodroffe
    Cuthbert Woodroffe was a Vincentian statesman who served as Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, acting as the monarch’s representative in the country.
  • C. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • D. George Rawlinson
    George Rawlinson was a 19th-century English clergyman and eminent historian known for his works on ancient history and translations of classical texts.
  • E. Sir Samuel Sandys
    Sir Samuel Sandys was an English politician and landowner of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his role in regional governance and his connections to prominent figures involved in early English colonial ventures.
  • 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: Sir William Thwaites
Triple: [Governor of Portsmouth, officeHeldBy, Sir William Thwaites]
Generated description
Sir William Thwaites was a British military officer who served as a senior commander in the Royal Marines and held prominent administrative posts in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Thwaites
Target entity description: Sir William Thwaites was a British military officer who served as a senior commander in the Royal Marines and held prominent administrative posts in the early 20th century.
  • A. Sir William Heseltine
    Sir William Heseltine is an Australian-born former royal courtier who served in senior roles within the British Royal Household, including as a close adviser to Queen Elizabeth II.
  • B. Cuthbert Woodroffe
    Cuthbert Woodroffe was a Vincentian statesman who served as Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, acting as the monarch’s representative in the country.
  • C. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • D. George Rawlinson
    George Rawlinson was a 19th-century English clergyman and eminent historian known for his works on ancient history and translations of classical texts.
  • E. Sir Samuel Sandys
    Sir Samuel Sandys was an English politician and landowner of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his role in regional governance and his connections to prominent figures involved in early English colonial ventures.
  • 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_69d85cc521a08190921fb50319dddc34 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0442f3c688190a599165e526af2ed completed April 16, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3d605b908190a18c63142c8bb854 completed May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff3f59213c8190a9c98350225b5151 completed May 9, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff3ff96a6c8190a4c9f20dabc86cef completed May 9, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.