Triple

T18619913
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rule of the Major-Generals E455119 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object William Boteler
William Boteler was a 17th-century English soldier and politician who served as one of Oliver Cromwell’s Major-Generals during the Protectorate.
 E1333400 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 Boteler | Statement: [Rule of the Major-Generals, officeHolder, William Boteler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Boteler
Context triple: [Rule of the Major-Generals, officeHolder, William Boteler]
  • A. Thomas Rainsborough
    Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
  • B. William Ainscough
    William Ainscough is a Canadian actor known for his roles in family-oriented television series and films, including the Disney Channel movie "Zapped."
  • C. Ralph Yearsley
    Ralph Yearsley was a British-born character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous American movies during the 1920s.
  • D. Thomas Blount
    Thomas Blount was an American politician and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who served multiple terms in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. William Sevenoke
    William Sevenoke was a medieval English benefactor and civic figure who established Sevenoaks School in Kent in the early 15th century.
  • 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 Boteler
Triple: [Rule of the Major-Generals, officeHolder, William Boteler]
Generated description
William Boteler was a 17th-century English soldier and politician who served as one of Oliver Cromwell’s Major-Generals during the Protectorate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Boteler
Target entity description: William Boteler was a 17th-century English soldier and politician who served as one of Oliver Cromwell’s Major-Generals during the Protectorate.
  • A. Thomas Rainsborough
    Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
  • B. William Ainscough
    William Ainscough is a Canadian actor known for his roles in family-oriented television series and films, including the Disney Channel movie "Zapped."
  • C. Ralph Yearsley
    Ralph Yearsley was a British-born character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous American movies during the 1920s.
  • D. Thomas Blount
    Thomas Blount was an American politician and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who served multiple terms in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. William Sevenoke
    William Sevenoke was a medieval English benefactor and civic figure who established Sevenoaks School in Kent in the early 15th century.
  • 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e54f00889c8190931f8d3fbabd531b completed April 19, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a050390bd4c8190b623f08a12eee39b completed May 13, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a050455e6e8819084927b1c2d4a5237 completed May 13, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0505cbc11481908e61d90dd64f6212 completed May 13, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.