Triple

T19635310
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Gisborne E471378 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object New Zealand colonial civil service
The New Zealand colonial civil service was the professional administrative body that managed government affairs and implemented policies in New Zealand during its period as a British colony.
E1386839 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: New Zealand colonial civil service | Statement: [William Gisborne, partOf, New Zealand colonial civil service]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Zealand colonial civil service
Context triple: [William Gisborne, partOf, New Zealand colonial civil service]
  • A. British colonisation of New Zealand
    The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
  • B. New Zealand public service commissioners
    New Zealand public service commissioners are senior officials responsible for overseeing the leadership, integrity, and performance of the country’s public service and its chief executives.
  • C. New Zealand Public Works Department
    The New Zealand Public Works Department was a former government agency responsible for designing and constructing major public infrastructure projects, including hydroelectric power stations, throughout New Zealand.
  • D. First National Government of New Zealand
    The First National Government of New Zealand was the centre-right administration led primarily by Prime Minister Sidney Holland from 1949 to 1957, noted for its conservative economic policies, industrial relations reforms, and reshaping of the country’s constitutional and legislative framework.
  • E. New Zealand Representation Commission
    The New Zealand Representation Commission is an independent statutory body responsible for determining and reviewing the boundaries and names of New Zealand’s parliamentary electorates.
  • 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: New Zealand colonial civil service
Triple: [William Gisborne, partOf, New Zealand colonial civil service]
Generated description
The New Zealand colonial civil service was the professional administrative body that managed government affairs and implemented policies in New Zealand during its period as a British colony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Zealand colonial civil service
Target entity description: The New Zealand colonial civil service was the professional administrative body that managed government affairs and implemented policies in New Zealand during its period as a British colony.
  • A. British colonisation of New Zealand
    The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
  • B. New Zealand public service commissioners
    New Zealand public service commissioners are senior officials responsible for overseeing the leadership, integrity, and performance of the country’s public service and its chief executives.
  • C. New Zealand Public Works Department
    The New Zealand Public Works Department was a former government agency responsible for designing and constructing major public infrastructure projects, including hydroelectric power stations, throughout New Zealand.
  • D. First National Government of New Zealand
    The First National Government of New Zealand was the centre-right administration led primarily by Prime Minister Sidney Holland from 1949 to 1957, noted for its conservative economic policies, industrial relations reforms, and reshaping of the country’s constitutional and legislative framework.
  • E. New Zealand Representation Commission
    The New Zealand Representation Commission is an independent statutory body responsible for determining and reviewing the boundaries and names of New Zealand’s parliamentary electorates.
  • 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.