Triple

T2464841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne E55221 entity
Predicate precededByInOffice P2999 FINISHED
Object Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, was a prominent 19th-century British Conservative politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
E289670 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: Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns | Statement: [Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, precededByInOffice, Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
Context triple: [Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, precededByInOffice, Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns]
  • A. Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
    Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman who became the first Duke of Fife and gained prominence through his marriage to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII.
  • B. 1st Viscount Thurso
    1st Viscount Thurso is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created for Scottish Liberal politician Archibald Sinclair, a prominent statesman and wartime Secretary of State for Air.
  • C. Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
    Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and heir to the Rosebery earldom who served as a Member of Parliament and predeceased his father, the 5th Earl of Rosebery.
  • D. Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland
    Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, was a 19th-century British peer and politician prominent in Yorkshire public life and national affairs.
  • E. John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
    John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices in Britain, including serving as a field marshal and a prominent Whig statesman.
  • 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: Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
Triple: [Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, precededByInOffice, Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns]
Generated description
Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, was a prominent 19th-century British Conservative politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
Target entity description: Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, was a prominent 19th-century British Conservative politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
  • A. Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
    Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman who became the first Duke of Fife and gained prominence through his marriage to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII.
  • B. 1st Viscount Thurso
    1st Viscount Thurso is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created for Scottish Liberal politician Archibald Sinclair, a prominent statesman and wartime Secretary of State for Air.
  • C. Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
    Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and heir to the Rosebery earldom who served as a Member of Parliament and predeceased his father, the 5th Earl of Rosebery.
  • D. Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland
    Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, was a 19th-century British peer and politician prominent in Yorkshire public life and national affairs.
  • E. John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
    John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices in Britain, including serving as a field marshal and a prominent Whig statesman.
  • 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_69ab49e3622c8190ad22afa2c4fbb807 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd1216f44819094c46ae7c2c1e394 completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf36e2848190a03ca375d802241c completed March 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb000ed448190a3d6db802eb88958 completed March 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb07e1d2c8190a8b8da3d3641b36c completed March 10, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.