Triple

T22854325
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British capture of St. Eustatius E566437 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Major-General John Vaughan
Major-General John Vaughan was a British Army officer and colonial commander active during the American Revolutionary War, noted for leading key Caribbean operations against Dutch and French possessions.
E1559173 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: Major-General John Vaughan | Statement: [British capture of St. Eustatius, commander, Major-General John Vaughan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General John Vaughan
Context triple: [British capture of St. Eustatius, commander, Major-General John Vaughan]
  • A. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • B. Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
    Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
  • C. Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
    Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Rupert Smith
    Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
  • E. Major General Harold Barrowclough
    Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
  • 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: Major-General John Vaughan
Triple: [British capture of St. Eustatius, commander, Major-General John Vaughan]
Generated description
Major-General John Vaughan was a British Army officer and colonial commander active during the American Revolutionary War, noted for leading key Caribbean operations against Dutch and French possessions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General John Vaughan
Target entity description: Major-General John Vaughan was a British Army officer and colonial commander active during the American Revolutionary War, noted for leading key Caribbean operations against Dutch and French possessions.
  • A. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • B. Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
    Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
  • C. Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
    Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Rupert Smith
    Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
  • E. Major General Harold Barrowclough
    Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
  • 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_69e2458750b481908a8e4cf4609cc6cf completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17ebb4ea48190b4b865e316f6a75f completed April 29, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bae87f2548190b7e226cec45ce06a completed May 19, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bb073073c819086eb73d5dfaf3887 completed May 19, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bb100b2008190bc741883a9efb2df completed May 19, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:37 p.m.