Triple

T23257944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Special Court for Sierra Leone E581920 entity
Predicate hasProsecutor P1694 FINISHED
Object Desmond de Silva
Desmond de Silva was a prominent British lawyer and international prosecutor known for serving as Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and for his work on war crimes and human rights cases.
E1577132 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: Desmond de Silva | Statement: [Special Court for Sierra Leone, hasProsecutor, Desmond de Silva]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Desmond de Silva
Context triple: [Special Court for Sierra Leone, hasProsecutor, Desmond de Silva]
  • A. C. P. de Silva
    C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and influential mid-20th-century statesman who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-independence political landscape.
  • B. Albert F. de Saram
    Albert F. de Saram was a 19th-century Ceylonese entrepreneur best known for co-founding Colombo’s historic Galle Face Hotel, one of Asia’s oldest and most iconic seafront hotels.
  • C. David De Silva
    David De Silva is an American film and theater producer best known as the creator and driving force behind the musical franchise "Fame."
  • D. Denzil Peiris
    Denzil Peiris was a prominent Sri Lankan journalist and editor known for his influential role in shaping post-independence English-language media in Sri Lanka.
  • E. Rohan de Saram
    Rohan de Saram is a renowned British-Sri Lankan cellist celebrated for his virtuosic performances and advocacy of contemporary classical music.
  • 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: Desmond de Silva
Triple: [Special Court for Sierra Leone, hasProsecutor, Desmond de Silva]
Generated description
Desmond de Silva was a prominent British lawyer and international prosecutor known for serving as Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and for his work on war crimes and human rights cases.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Desmond de Silva
Target entity description: Desmond de Silva was a prominent British lawyer and international prosecutor known for serving as Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and for his work on war crimes and human rights cases.
  • A. C. P. de Silva
    C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and influential mid-20th-century statesman who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-independence political landscape.
  • B. Albert F. de Saram
    Albert F. de Saram was a 19th-century Ceylonese entrepreneur best known for co-founding Colombo’s historic Galle Face Hotel, one of Asia’s oldest and most iconic seafront hotels.
  • C. David De Silva
    David De Silva is an American film and theater producer best known as the creator and driving force behind the musical franchise "Fame."
  • D. Denzil Peiris
    Denzil Peiris was a prominent Sri Lankan journalist and editor known for his influential role in shaping post-independence English-language media in Sri Lanka.
  • E. Rohan de Saram
    Rohan de Saram is a renowned British-Sri Lankan cellist celebrated for his virtuosic performances and advocacy of contemporary classical music.
  • 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_69e246079f58819085eaa9c260906880 completed April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f194c5f5bc8190ac8776f7f7430209 completed April 29, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3f6be3ec8190be316ae03c3b3729 completed May 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c40297d3c8190b366b60cec3dbbf8 completed May 19, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c40ffd67481908931ffc2d91fb02b completed May 19, 2026, 10:52 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:11 p.m.