Triple

T16578737
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Battle of Lincoln E402782 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester
Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester, was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the early 13th century, noted for his prominent role in the politics and warfare of King John’s reign and the subsequent civil conflicts.
E398644 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: Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester | Statement: [Second Battle of Lincoln, commander, Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester
Context triple: [Second Battle of Lincoln, commander, Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester]
  • A. Ranulf de Blondeville
    Ranulf de Blondeville was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, best known as the 6th Earl of Chester and a key supporter of the English crown during the reigns of Richard I and John.
  • B. Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
    Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, was a powerful and turbulent 12th-century English nobleman noted for his shifting allegiances and major role in the civil war known as The Anarchy.
  • C. Ranulf de Soules
    Ranulf de Soules was a prominent medieval Scottish noble and royal official, best known as a leading member of the influential de Soulis family.
  • D. William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
    William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England who became a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader in the early 13th century.
  • E. Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford
    Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, was a prominent 13th-century English nobleman and member of the powerful de Clare family, influential in both politics and ecclesiastical patronage.
  • 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: Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester
Triple: [Second Battle of Lincoln, commander, Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester]
Generated description
Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester, was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the early 13th century, noted for his prominent role in the politics and warfare of King John’s reign and the subsequent civil conflicts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester
Target entity description: Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester, was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the early 13th century, noted for his prominent role in the politics and warfare of King John’s reign and the subsequent civil conflicts.
  • A. Ranulf de Blondeville chosen
    Ranulf de Blondeville was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, best known as the 6th Earl of Chester and a key supporter of the English crown during the reigns of Richard I and John.
  • B. Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
    Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, was a powerful and turbulent 12th-century English nobleman noted for his shifting allegiances and major role in the civil war known as The Anarchy.
  • C. Ranulf de Soules
    Ranulf de Soules was a prominent medieval Scottish noble and royal official, best known as a leading member of the influential de Soulis family.
  • D. William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
    William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England who became a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader in the early 13th century.
  • E. Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford
    Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, was a prominent 13th-century English nobleman and member of the powerful de Clare family, influential in both politics and ecclesiastical patronage.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3595f9be88190b01ba628ecf1103d completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a508505881909cb7582916ad037c completed May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a685753881908c3fef10823ce569 completed May 10, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a7174f5c8190891ddd180c50aee3 completed May 10, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.