Triple

T22854326
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British capture of St. Eustatius E566437 entity
Predicate opposingCommander P1698 FINISHED
Object Governor Johannes de Graaff
Governor Johannes de Graaff was the Dutch colonial governor of St. Eustatius in the late 18th century, notably in charge when the island was seized by the British during the American Revolutionary War.
E1559174 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: Governor Johannes de Graaff | Statement: [British capture of St. Eustatius, opposingCommander, Governor Johannes de Graaff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor Johannes de Graaff
Context triple: [British capture of St. Eustatius, opposingCommander, Governor Johannes de Graaff]
  • A. J. H. H. de Waal Hertzog
    J. H. H. de Waal Hertzog was a prominent South African figure in Afrikaans literature and culture, honored as the namesake of the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Drama.
  • B. Reinier de Klerk
    Reinier de Klerk was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who rose through the ranks of the Dutch East India Company to become a leading political figure in the Dutch East Indies.
  • C. Willem Drees Jr.
    Willem Drees Jr. was a Dutch politician and economist who served as a prominent member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and held various governmental and advisory roles in the Netherlands.
  • D. Gerrit Kouwenaar
    Gerrit Kouwenaar was a prominent Dutch poet, translator, and member of the experimental Vijftigers movement, known for his influential, austere modernist poetry.
  • E. Frederik van Schurman
    Frederik van Schurman was a Dutch nobleman and scholar best known as the father and early educator of the learned 17th-century polymath Anna Maria van Schurman.
  • 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: Governor Johannes de Graaff
Triple: [British capture of St. Eustatius, opposingCommander, Governor Johannes de Graaff]
Generated description
Governor Johannes de Graaff was the Dutch colonial governor of St. Eustatius in the late 18th century, notably in charge when the island was seized by the British during the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor Johannes de Graaff
Target entity description: Governor Johannes de Graaff was the Dutch colonial governor of St. Eustatius in the late 18th century, notably in charge when the island was seized by the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. J. H. H. de Waal Hertzog
    J. H. H. de Waal Hertzog was a prominent South African figure in Afrikaans literature and culture, honored as the namesake of the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Drama.
  • B. Reinier de Klerk
    Reinier de Klerk was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who rose through the ranks of the Dutch East India Company to become a leading political figure in the Dutch East Indies.
  • C. Willem Drees Jr.
    Willem Drees Jr. was a Dutch politician and economist who served as a prominent member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and held various governmental and advisory roles in the Netherlands.
  • D. Gerrit Kouwenaar
    Gerrit Kouwenaar was a prominent Dutch poet, translator, and member of the experimental Vijftigers movement, known for his influential, austere modernist poetry.
  • E. Frederik van Schurman
    Frederik van Schurman was a Dutch nobleman and scholar best known as the father and early educator of the learned 17th-century polymath Anna Maria van Schurman.
  • 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.