Triple

T23091939
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Hlobane E575776 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Colonel Redvers Buller
Colonel Redvers Buller was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient best known for his leadership in colonial campaigns such as the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Boer War.
E1570363 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: Colonel Redvers Buller | Statement: [Battle of Hlobane, commander, Colonel Redvers Buller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Redvers Buller
Context triple: [Battle of Hlobane, commander, Colonel Redvers Buller]
  • A. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
  • B. Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman
    Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command in key campaigns of the Second World War, particularly in North Africa and Italy.
  • C. Viscount Wolseley
    Viscount Wolseley was a prominent 19th-century British Army officer and military reformer renowned for his leadership in numerous imperial campaigns and for modernizing the British armed forces.
  • D. James Wentworth Buller
    James Wentworth Buller was a 19th-century British politician and landowner from Devon, known as the father of British Army general Sir Redvers Buller.
  • E. Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard
    Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard was a senior British Army officer who held high command roles during the Second World War, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • 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: Colonel Redvers Buller
Triple: [Battle of Hlobane, commander, Colonel Redvers Buller]
Generated description
Colonel Redvers Buller was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient best known for his leadership in colonial campaigns such as the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Boer War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Redvers Buller
Target entity description: Colonel Redvers Buller was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient best known for his leadership in colonial campaigns such as the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Boer War.
  • A. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
  • B. Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman
    Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command in key campaigns of the Second World War, particularly in North Africa and Italy.
  • C. Viscount Wolseley
    Viscount Wolseley was a prominent 19th-century British Army officer and military reformer renowned for his leadership in numerous imperial campaigns and for modernizing the British armed forces.
  • D. James Wentworth Buller
    James Wentworth Buller was a 19th-century British politician and landowner from Devon, known as the father of British Army general Sir Redvers Buller.
  • E. Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard
    Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard was a senior British Army officer who held high command roles during the Second World War, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • 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_69e245bf3e3c819086d3448720efc01b completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18daa68d48190842e9cb6de31ea79 completed April 29, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c15b97b6881909cbc1afc68ea80b6 completed May 19, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c175e246081909d6451f245ccfe66 completed May 19, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c1820a4d88190aed59f50b4e7ec47 completed May 19, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:57 p.m.