Triple

T21789169
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Thomas Duckworth E537920 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station
The Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station was the senior Royal Navy command responsible for British naval operations and maritime security around Newfoundland and the western North Atlantic during the Age of Sail.
E1503065 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: Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station | Statement: [John Thomas Duckworth, positionHeld, Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station
Context triple: [John Thomas Duckworth, positionHeld, Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station]
  • A. Cape Sheridan
    Cape Sheridan is a remote headland on the northeastern coast of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, known as one of the northernmost land points in the world and a historic jumping-off site for early North Pole expeditions.
  • B. Commander-in-Chief, West Indies Station
    The Commander-in-Chief, West Indies Station was the senior Royal Navy officer responsible for directing British naval operations and administration in the Caribbean and surrounding waters during the age of sail and imperial expansion.
  • C. HMC Dockyard Halifax
    HMC Dockyard Halifax is a major Royal Canadian Navy base and shipyard located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, serving as one of Canada’s primary Atlantic maritime defence and support facilities.
  • D. Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
    Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth was a senior Royal Navy command responsible for overseeing naval operations and administration in the Plymouth area and surrounding waters.
  • E. Naval Station Argentia
    Naval Station Argentia was a major United States Navy base in Newfoundland, Canada, that served as a key Atlantic anti-submarine warfare and communications hub during World War II and the Cold 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: Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station
Triple: [John Thomas Duckworth, positionHeld, Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station]
Generated description
The Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station was the senior Royal Navy command responsible for British naval operations and maritime security around Newfoundland and the western North Atlantic during the Age of Sail.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station
Target entity description: The Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland Station was the senior Royal Navy command responsible for British naval operations and maritime security around Newfoundland and the western North Atlantic during the Age of Sail.
  • A. Cape Sheridan
    Cape Sheridan is a remote headland on the northeastern coast of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, known as one of the northernmost land points in the world and a historic jumping-off site for early North Pole expeditions.
  • B. Commander-in-Chief, West Indies Station
    The Commander-in-Chief, West Indies Station was the senior Royal Navy officer responsible for directing British naval operations and administration in the Caribbean and surrounding waters during the age of sail and imperial expansion.
  • C. HMC Dockyard Halifax
    HMC Dockyard Halifax is a major Royal Canadian Navy base and shipyard located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, serving as one of Canada’s primary Atlantic maritime defence and support facilities.
  • D. Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
    Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth was a senior Royal Navy command responsible for overseeing naval operations and administration in the Plymouth area and surrounding waters.
  • E. Naval Station Argentia
    Naval Station Argentia was a major United States Navy base in Newfoundland, Canada, that served as a key Atlantic anti-submarine warfare and communications hub during World War II and the Cold 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_69e0c47198f881908cb0d237266c10e9 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0621dfa3c8190921bfccbff7331f2 completed April 28, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3e72ff48819092b5748718550120 completed May 17, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a3fa18b8481909b0a0471bc4eb592 completed May 17, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a405450a0819089794cc07aa291b8 completed May 17, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:52 p.m.