Triple

T20914751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercian Regiment E515041 entity
Predicate hasBattalion P16565 FINISHED
Object 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment
The 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army, formed through regimental restructuring and drawing its lineage from historic county regiments in the Midlands.
E1458613 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: 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment | Statement: [Mercian Regiment, hasBattalion, 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment
Context triple: [Mercian Regiment, hasBattalion, 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment]
  • A. 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment
    The 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army, forming part of the Mercian Regiment and drawing its heritage from historic county regiments of the Midlands.
  • B. 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment
    The 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment was a line infantry battalion of the British Army that served in major conflicts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including both World Wars.
  • C. 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
    The 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment was a regular infantry battalion of the British Army’s Manchester Regiment that served in key campaigns of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Second Boer War and World War I.
  • D. 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
    The 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army’s Royal Anglian Regiment, traditionally recruiting from counties in the East of England and serving in both home defence and overseas operations.
  • E. 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
    The 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment was a British Army infantry battalion that served in multiple major campaigns, including in the Far East during the Second World War.
  • 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: 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment
Triple: [Mercian Regiment, hasBattalion, 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment]
Generated description
The 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army, formed through regimental restructuring and drawing its lineage from historic county regiments in the Midlands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment
Target entity description: The 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army, formed through regimental restructuring and drawing its lineage from historic county regiments in the Midlands.
  • A. 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment
    The 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army, forming part of the Mercian Regiment and drawing its heritage from historic county regiments of the Midlands.
  • B. 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment
    The 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment was a line infantry battalion of the British Army that served in major conflicts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including both World Wars.
  • C. 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
    The 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment was a regular infantry battalion of the British Army’s Manchester Regiment that served in key campaigns of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Second Boer War and World War I.
  • D. 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
    The 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry battalion of the British Army’s Royal Anglian Regiment, traditionally recruiting from counties in the East of England and serving in both home defence and overseas operations.
  • E. 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
    The 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment was a British Army infantry battalion that served in multiple major campaigns, including in the Far East during the Second World War.
  • 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_69e0b4f9d5ec8190bb2bd27350ed341c completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6ec61a6ec81908d9e0629438d27c9 completed April 21, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09277d39c48190b922a763a6ec8a9c completed May 17, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0927f18ebc81908e158b47ac171861 completed May 17, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a092852444c8190933e8177a5a0f3e9 completed May 17, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:48 p.m.