Triple

T19635283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Gisborne E471378 entity
Predicate officeContested P495 FINISHED
Object Superintendent of Wellington Province
The Superintendent of Wellington Province was the chief elected official responsible for governing the Wellington provincial government in 19th-century New Zealand.
E1386838 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: Superintendent of Wellington Province | Statement: [William Gisborne, officeContested, Superintendent of Wellington Province]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Superintendent of Wellington Province
Context triple: [William Gisborne, officeContested, Superintendent of Wellington Province]
  • A. Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land
    The Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land was the British colonial administrator in charge of governing what is now the Australian state of Tasmania during the 19th century.
  • B. Secretary for Lands of New South Wales
    The Secretary for Lands of New South Wales was a senior government ministerial role responsible for overseeing land administration, allocation, and related policies in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • C. Mayor of Whanganui
    The Mayor of Whanganui is the democratically elected leader and chief public representative of the Whanganui District in New Zealand.
  • D. Mayor of Wellington
    The Mayor of Wellington is the democratically elected leader and public face of New Zealand’s capital city, responsible for providing political leadership, representing the city, and overseeing its strategic direction and governance.
  • E. Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province
    The Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province was the British colonial official responsible for administering the southern part of New Zealand under the short-lived New Munster provincial government in the mid-19th 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: Superintendent of Wellington Province
Triple: [William Gisborne, officeContested, Superintendent of Wellington Province]
Generated description
The Superintendent of Wellington Province was the chief elected official responsible for governing the Wellington provincial government in 19th-century New Zealand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Superintendent of Wellington Province
Target entity description: The Superintendent of Wellington Province was the chief elected official responsible for governing the Wellington provincial government in 19th-century New Zealand.
  • A. Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land
    The Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land was the British colonial administrator in charge of governing what is now the Australian state of Tasmania during the 19th century.
  • B. Secretary for Lands of New South Wales
    The Secretary for Lands of New South Wales was a senior government ministerial role responsible for overseeing land administration, allocation, and related policies in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • C. Mayor of Whanganui
    The Mayor of Whanganui is the democratically elected leader and chief public representative of the Whanganui District in New Zealand.
  • D. Mayor of Wellington
    The Mayor of Wellington is the democratically elected leader and public face of New Zealand’s capital city, responsible for providing political leadership, representing the city, and overseeing its strategic direction and governance.
  • E. Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province
    The Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province was the British colonial official responsible for administering the southern part of New Zealand under the short-lived New Munster provincial government in the mid-19th 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_69d8e511f28481909f4bc3ea9191e54a completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e64105f44081909c62341bace91972 completed April 20, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0771c65a348190b4604714f5e242f2 completed May 15, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07765e8e0481908f094b3fe8dab4b2 completed May 15, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a077722827c81908289af6529ca5ce6 completed May 15, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.