Triple

T19293293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White Ship disaster E482494 entity
Predicate captain P884 FINISHED
Object Thomas FitzStephen
Thomas FitzStephen was the medieval ship's captain whose command of the White Ship ended in a catastrophic 1120 Channel wreck that killed England’s heir, William Adelin, and triggered a succession crisis.
E1369599 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: Thomas FitzStephen | Statement: [White Ship disaster, captain, Thomas FitzStephen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas FitzStephen
Context triple: [White Ship disaster, captain, Thomas FitzStephen]
  • A. Simeon Baldwin
    Simeon Baldwin was a prominent American jurist and politician from Connecticut who served as governor and as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  • B. John of Lorne
    John of Lorne was a Scottish nobleman of the MacDougall family who opposed Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • C. John Stewart of Ralston
    John Stewart of Ralston was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman of the influential Stewart family, noted as a younger son of the royal Stewart line and ancestor of several later Scottish lairds.
  • D. John de Burgh
    John de Burgh was an Anglo-Irish nobleman of the early 14th century, heir to the Earldom of Ulster and a member of the powerful de Burgh (Burke) dynasty.
  • E. Louis Fitzhenry
    Louis Fitzhenry was an American lawyer, politician, and federal judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
  • 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: Thomas FitzStephen
Triple: [White Ship disaster, captain, Thomas FitzStephen]
Generated description
Thomas FitzStephen was the medieval ship's captain whose command of the White Ship ended in a catastrophic 1120 Channel wreck that killed England’s heir, William Adelin, and triggered a succession crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas FitzStephen
Target entity description: Thomas FitzStephen was the medieval ship's captain whose command of the White Ship ended in a catastrophic 1120 Channel wreck that killed England’s heir, William Adelin, and triggered a succession crisis.
  • A. Simeon Baldwin
    Simeon Baldwin was a prominent American jurist and politician from Connecticut who served as governor and as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  • B. John of Lorne
    John of Lorne was a Scottish nobleman of the MacDougall family who opposed Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • C. John Stewart of Ralston
    John Stewart of Ralston was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman of the influential Stewart family, noted as a younger son of the royal Stewart line and ancestor of several later Scottish lairds.
  • D. John de Burgh
    John de Burgh was an Anglo-Irish nobleman of the early 14th century, heir to the Earldom of Ulster and a member of the powerful de Burgh (Burke) dynasty.
  • E. Louis Fitzhenry
    Louis Fitzhenry was an American lawyer, politician, and federal judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
  • 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_69d8e8cf61b0819096fe3e4107827c4e completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fc824b448190865230eed8ef9ebf completed April 20, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07144f4dec8190a90234763f4586f6 completed May 15, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07187a53a08190b707b0e55dcdcb44 completed May 15, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0718cd7e9881909b39b362cc8bfcd8 completed May 15, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 p.m.