Triple
T17856804
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Michael Howard |
E445958
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Iain Duncan Smith |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Iain Duncan Smith | Statement: [Michael Howard, precededBy, Iain Duncan Smith]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iain Duncan Smith Context triple: [Michael Howard, precededBy, Iain Duncan Smith]
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A.
Iain Duncan Smith
chosen
Iain Duncan Smith is a British Conservative politician and former party leader who served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was a prominent advocate for Brexit.
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B.
Oliver Dowden
Oliver Dowden is a British Conservative Party politician who has held several senior UK government roles, including serving in the Cabinet.
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C.
George Osborne
George Osborne is a British Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer who played a prominent role in UK economic policy during David Cameron’s government.
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D.
George Osborne
George Osborne is a central character in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "Vanity Fair," portrayed as an upper-class, self-important officer whose flaws and fate reflect the book’s critique of social ambition and moral emptiness.
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E.
Trevor Manuel
Trevor Manuel is a prominent South African politician and former Minister of Finance who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-apartheid economic policy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f26f18819089c9e43250bee6ae |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4978bd5e081909e192f6aada5235f |
completed | April 19, 2026, 8:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:17 a.m.