Triple

T2227465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Virginia Company of London E48684 entity
Predicate notableLeader P304 FINISHED
Object Sir Thomas Gates
Sir Thomas Gates was an early 17th-century English colonial governor and military leader who played a key role in the survival and governance of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
E246165 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: Sir Thomas Gates | Statement: [Virginia Company of London, notableLeader, Sir Thomas Gates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Gates
Context triple: [Virginia Company of London, notableLeader, Sir Thomas Gates]
  • A. Ferdinando Gorges
    Ferdinando Gorges was an English colonial entrepreneur and early promoter of settlement in New England, often called the "Father of Maine" for his role in establishing English claims and colonies there.
  • B. Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr
    Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and colonial governor of Virginia whose name became the source of the exonym “Delaware” for the Lenape people and the region.
  • C. Esek Hopkins
    Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Sir Edward Spragge
    Sir Edward Spragge was a 17th-century English admiral in the Royal Navy, noted for his prominent role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and his death in battle in 1673.
  • E. Thomas Button
    Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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: Sir Thomas Gates
Triple: [Virginia Company of London, notableLeader, Sir Thomas Gates]
Generated description
Sir Thomas Gates was an early 17th-century English colonial governor and military leader who played a key role in the survival and governance of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Gates
Target entity description: Sir Thomas Gates was an early 17th-century English colonial governor and military leader who played a key role in the survival and governance of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
  • A. Ferdinando Gorges
    Ferdinando Gorges was an English colonial entrepreneur and early promoter of settlement in New England, often called the "Father of Maine" for his role in establishing English claims and colonies there.
  • B. Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr
    Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and colonial governor of Virginia whose name became the source of the exonym “Delaware” for the Lenape people and the region.
  • C. Esek Hopkins
    Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Sir Edward Spragge
    Sir Edward Spragge was a 17th-century English admiral in the Royal Navy, noted for his prominent role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and his death in battle in 1673.
  • E. Thomas Button
    Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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_69a88aa51b388190949868ec9766e587 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0670ce48190b98814064bff0517 completed March 7, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6565513081908b1117d16c375aec completed March 9, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae67387ce08190aca43fdf949e98b2 completed March 9, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae679aa46c8190a7431f661f65580b completed March 9, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.