Triple

T19587776
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject African Association E470147 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Courtenay
John Courtenay was a British politician and abolitionist-era reformer associated with late 18th-century intellectual and exploratory societies such as the African Association.
E1390075 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: John Courtenay | Statement: [African Association, foundedBy, John Courtenay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Courtenay
Context triple: [African Association, foundedBy, John Courtenay]
  • A. Thomas Courtenay
    Thomas Courtenay was a medieval English nobleman of the influential Courtenay family, associated with the Earldom of Devon.
  • B. William Courtenay, Earl of Devon
    William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, was an English nobleman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who rose to prominence at the Tudor court through his marriage into the royal family and his restoration to the earldom of Devon under Henry VIII.
  • C. Sir Philip Courtenay
    Sir Philip Courtenay was a 14th-century English naval commander and nobleman who served the Crown in the Hundred Years’ War and held prominent administrative and military posts.
  • D. George Talbot
    George Talbot is a notable member of the historically prominent Talbot family, an English noble lineage influential in medieval and early modern Britain.
  • E. Walter Montagu
    Walter Montagu was a 17th-century English courtier, diplomat, and writer who became a Catholic priest and abbot, known for his political influence and religious conversions during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II.
  • 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: John Courtenay
Triple: [African Association, foundedBy, John Courtenay]
Generated description
John Courtenay was a British politician and abolitionist-era reformer associated with late 18th-century intellectual and exploratory societies such as the African Association.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Courtenay
Target entity description: John Courtenay was a British politician and abolitionist-era reformer associated with late 18th-century intellectual and exploratory societies such as the African Association.
  • A. Thomas Courtenay
    Thomas Courtenay was a medieval English nobleman of the influential Courtenay family, associated with the Earldom of Devon.
  • B. William Courtenay, Earl of Devon
    William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, was an English nobleman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who rose to prominence at the Tudor court through his marriage into the royal family and his restoration to the earldom of Devon under Henry VIII.
  • C. Sir Philip Courtenay
    Sir Philip Courtenay was a 14th-century English naval commander and nobleman who served the Crown in the Hundred Years’ War and held prominent administrative and military posts.
  • D. George Talbot
    George Talbot is a notable member of the historically prominent Talbot family, an English noble lineage influential in medieval and early modern Britain.
  • E. Walter Montagu
    Walter Montagu was a 17th-century English courtier, diplomat, and writer who became a Catholic priest and abbot, known for his political influence and religious conversions during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II.
  • 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_69d8e510024481908415c0d616fa6186 completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e64052f61c81908bb49927d4246030 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0787abac6c81909fb6b242c3a33e68 completed May 15, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a078956bad08190a0e16b8a7a7a8a15 completed May 15, 2026, 9 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a078a0b7a7c8190adb44f9f20e0b6ff completed May 15, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:43 p.m.