Triple

T17009484
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa Company forces E412659 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Major Patrick Forbes
Major Patrick Forbes was a British military officer best known for leading British South Africa Company forces during colonial campaigns in southern Africa.
E1244591 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: Major Patrick Forbes | Statement: [British South Africa Company forces, notableCommander, Major Patrick Forbes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Patrick Forbes
Context triple: [British South Africa Company forces, notableCommander, Major Patrick Forbes]
  • A. Major Charles Dowling
    Major Charles Dowling was a British intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang, the undercover group targeted and largely assassinated by the IRA in Dublin on Bloody Sunday in 1920.
  • B. Major Roger Healey
    Major Roger Healey is the bumbling yet loyal Air Force officer and best friend of astronaut Tony Nelson on the classic sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie."
  • C. Major Ronald Ferguson
    Major Ronald Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager best known as the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, and maternal grandfather of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
  • D. Major Philip Kirby
    Major Philip Kirby is the charming yet unsuspecting Army officer who becomes the romantic lead opposite Ginger Rogers’ disguised heroine in the classic 1942 screwball comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
  • E. Major Marquis Warren
    Major Marquis Warren is a former Union cavalry officer turned bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s film "The Hateful Eight," known for his sharp wit, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s tense standoff.
  • 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: Major Patrick Forbes
Triple: [British South Africa Company forces, notableCommander, Major Patrick Forbes]
Generated description
Major Patrick Forbes was a British military officer best known for leading British South Africa Company forces during colonial campaigns in southern Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Patrick Forbes
Target entity description: Major Patrick Forbes was a British military officer best known for leading British South Africa Company forces during colonial campaigns in southern Africa.
  • A. Major Charles Dowling
    Major Charles Dowling was a British intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang, the undercover group targeted and largely assassinated by the IRA in Dublin on Bloody Sunday in 1920.
  • B. Major Roger Healey
    Major Roger Healey is the bumbling yet loyal Air Force officer and best friend of astronaut Tony Nelson on the classic sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie."
  • C. Major Ronald Ferguson
    Major Ronald Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager best known as the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, and maternal grandfather of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
  • D. Major Philip Kirby
    Major Philip Kirby is the charming yet unsuspecting Army officer who becomes the romantic lead opposite Ginger Rogers’ disguised heroine in the classic 1942 screwball comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
  • E. Major Marquis Warren
    Major Marquis Warren is a former Union cavalry officer turned bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s film "The Hateful Eight," known for his sharp wit, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s tense standoff.
  • 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d47a8444819081f1262eb7dbda40 completed April 18, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc241ec88190a3e868ab88b26f09 completed May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0114d7d03c8190943777f4eac956fd completed May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01159a08b081908fc82adc7cca532a completed May 10, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.