Triple

T1961514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject High Commissioner for Southern Africa E42596 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object Hercules Robinson
Hercules Robinson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served in several key governorships across the British Empire, including in southern Africa and Australasia.
E218815 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: Hercules Robinson | Statement: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, notableOfficeHolder, Hercules Robinson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hercules Robinson
Context triple: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, notableOfficeHolder, Hercules Robinson]
  • A. Leo Gordon
    Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • B. Shadrach Bond
    Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
  • C. Winston Hibler
    Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
  • D. Cyrus Griffin
    Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  • E. Henry Lucas
    Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
  • 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: Hercules Robinson
Triple: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, notableOfficeHolder, Hercules Robinson]
Generated description
Hercules Robinson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served in several key governorships across the British Empire, including in southern Africa and Australasia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hercules Robinson
Target entity description: Hercules Robinson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served in several key governorships across the British Empire, including in southern Africa and Australasia.
  • A. Leo Gordon
    Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • B. Shadrach Bond
    Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
  • C. Winston Hibler
    Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
  • D. Cyrus Griffin
    Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  • E. Henry Lucas
    Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
  • 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_69a88711151c8190940b2572095059d7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3aae8c48190afae2cf3af2ae4e9 completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbd133908190add1c78d91a813ef completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6d7fb08190959ee247d0060f4c completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd2f68f48190ad23db5ca6ae663a completed March 8, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.