Triple

T22460147
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Farquhar E555206 entity
Predicate succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore P148282 FINISHED
Object John Crawfurd
John Crawfurd was a 19th-century Scottish physician, colonial administrator, and diplomat best known for serving as the second Resident of Singapore and for his influential writings on Southeast Asia.
E1538133 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: John Crawfurd | Statement: [William Farquhar, succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore, John Crawfurd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Crawfurd
Context triple: [William Farquhar, succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore, John Crawfurd]
  • A. William McGillivray
    William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. John MacTavish
    John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional Scottish special forces soldier and a central playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
  • C. Alexander Chisholm
    Alexander Chisholm was the executor of a South Carolina merchant’s estate who became historically significant as the named plaintiff in the landmark early U.S. Supreme Court case Chisholm v. Georgia, which helped prompt the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment.
  • D. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
    Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, was a Scottish nobleman and philanthropist best known for organizing large-scale Scottish emigration to North America and establishing pioneering agricultural settlements in what is now Canada.
  • E. John Spottiswood
    John Spottiswood was a Scottish clergyman and historian who served as Archbishop of St Andrews and played a prominent role in the religious and political life of early 17th-century Scotland.
  • 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: John Crawfurd
Triple: [William Farquhar, succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore, John Crawfurd]
Generated description
John Crawfurd was a 19th-century Scottish physician, colonial administrator, and diplomat best known for serving as the second Resident of Singapore and for his influential writings on Southeast Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Crawfurd
Target entity description: John Crawfurd was a 19th-century Scottish physician, colonial administrator, and diplomat best known for serving as the second Resident of Singapore and for his influential writings on Southeast Asia.
  • A. William McGillivray
    William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. John MacTavish
    John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional Scottish special forces soldier and a central playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
  • C. Alexander Chisholm
    Alexander Chisholm was the executor of a South Carolina merchant’s estate who became historically significant as the named plaintiff in the landmark early U.S. Supreme Court case Chisholm v. Georgia, which helped prompt the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment.
  • D. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
    Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, was a Scottish nobleman and philanthropist best known for organizing large-scale Scottish emigration to North America and establishing pioneering agricultural settlements in what is now Canada.
  • E. John Spottiswood
    John Spottiswood was a Scottish clergyman and historian who served as Archbishop of St Andrews and played a prominent role in the religious and political life of early 17th-century Scotland.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore
Context triple: [William Farquhar, succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore, John Crawfurd]
  • A. succeededByResidence
    Indicates that one residence directly follows and replaces another as the primary place of dwelling for an entity.
  • B. residencyStatus
    Indicates the legal or official residential classification of an entity within a particular jurisdiction or context.
  • C. appointedAsGovernorOfStraitsSettlements
    Indicates that a person was officially appointed to serve as the Governor of the Straits Settlements.
  • D. legalStatusInTaiwan
    Indicates the legal status or recognition that an entity has within the jurisdiction of Taiwan.
  • E. locatedInFederalTerritory
    Indicates that one entity is geographically or administratively situated within a federal territory.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69e11e51fdec8190adfdf9f8a6362221 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15b7eb5688190bd5e41d4d8189668 completed April 29, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b0c8433348190894a06439b3461ed completed May 18, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b0f24bb9c81909d2e5b08ff081ad0 completed May 18, 2026, 1:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b100675688190b493cc73e0d778fc completed May 18, 2026, 1:11 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e898ad961c819098fd1e46129bddcc completed April 22, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69e8aa39e3388190b659d59948ebf3e6 completed April 22, 2026, 11 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:48 p.m.