Triple
T22460147
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Farquhar |
E555206
|
entity |
| Predicate | succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore |
P148282
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Crawfurd |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: 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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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A.
succeededByResidence
Indicates that one residence directly follows and replaces another as the primary place of dwelling for an entity.
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B.
residencyStatus
Indicates the legal or official residential classification of an entity within a particular jurisdiction or context.
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C.
appointedAsGovernorOfStraitsSettlements
Indicates that a person was officially appointed to serve as the Governor of the Straits Settlements.
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D.
legalStatusInTaiwan
Indicates the legal status or recognition that an entity has within the jurisdiction of Taiwan.
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E.
locatedInFederalTerritory
Indicates that one entity is geographically or administratively situated within a federal territory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (4 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. |
| 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.