Triple

T1962779
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject East India Company Military Seminary, Addiscombe E42623 entity
Predicate notableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Colin Mackenzie
Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
 E218897 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: Colin Mackenzie | Statement: [East India Company Military Seminary, Addiscombe, notableAlumni, Colin Mackenzie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colin Mackenzie
Context triple: [East India Company Military Seminary, Addiscombe, notableAlumni, Colin Mackenzie]
  • A. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • B. John Carr Munro
    John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, and held several federal cabinet positions.
  • C. James Pattison Cockburn
    James Pattison Cockburn was a 19th-century British army officer and topographical artist known for his detailed landscape drawings and watercolors, particularly of Canada and Europe.
  • D. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Alexander Kerr
    Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • 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: Colin Mackenzie
Triple: [East India Company Military Seminary, Addiscombe, notableAlumni, Colin Mackenzie]
Generated description
Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colin Mackenzie
Target entity description: Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
  • A. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • B. John Carr Munro
    John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, and held several federal cabinet positions.
  • C. James Pattison Cockburn
    James Pattison Cockburn was a 19th-century British army officer and topographical artist known for his detailed landscape drawings and watercolors, particularly of Canada and Europe.
  • D. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Alexander Kerr
    Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • 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_69abb3ac31a08190abaecac8badc52c7 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.