Triple

T23510539
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony of South Australia E572407 entity
Predicate governor P537 FINISHED
Object Richard MacDonnell
Richard MacDonnell was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for serving as governor in several colonies, including in Australia and later in Africa.
 E1591486 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: Richard MacDonnell | Statement: [Colony of South Australia, governor, Richard MacDonnell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard MacDonnell
Context triple: [Colony of South Australia, governor, Richard MacDonnell]
  • A. Lewis MacLeod
    Lewis MacLeod is a Scottish voice actor and impressionist known for his extensive work in animation, radio, and video games, including roles in series like "The Amazing World of Gumball" and "Star Wars."
  • B. Francis McAvennie
    Francis McAvennie is a former Scottish professional footballer best known as a prolific striker for clubs such as West Ham United and Celtic during the 1980s.
  • C. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
  • D. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is an American keyboardist best known for his work in rock bands such as The Black Crowes and Circles Around the Sun.
  • E. Patrick Macmanus
    Patrick Macmanus is a television writer and producer known for his work as a showrunner and executive producer on various drama and thriller series.
  • 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: Richard MacDonnell
Triple: [Colony of South Australia, governor, Richard MacDonnell]
Generated description
Richard MacDonnell was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for serving as governor in several colonies, including in Australia and later in Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard MacDonnell
Target entity description: Richard MacDonnell was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for serving as governor in several colonies, including in Australia and later in Africa.
  • A. Lewis MacLeod
    Lewis MacLeod is a Scottish voice actor and impressionist known for his extensive work in animation, radio, and video games, including roles in series like "The Amazing World of Gumball" and "Star Wars."
  • B. Francis McAvennie
    Francis McAvennie is a former Scottish professional footballer best known as a prolific striker for clubs such as West Ham United and Celtic during the 1980s.
  • C. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
  • D. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is an American keyboardist best known for his work in rock bands such as The Black Crowes and Circles Around the Sun.
  • E. Patrick Macmanus
    Patrick Macmanus is a television writer and producer known for his work as a showrunner and executive producer on various drama and thriller series.
  • 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_69e245b5e4208190bac8a6509867e394 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a90455f0819092b37c69d7e73c43 completed April 29, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf46f18c81908dfe27a37d667f18 completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce1e95ad48190bcf2f07f169b8276 completed May 19, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce26bb9bc8190826a14b9c894bfd9 completed May 19, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:07 p.m.