Triple

T259064
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Oxford E5499 entity
Predicate chancellor P325 FINISHED
Object Chris Patten
Chris Patten is a British Conservative politician and life peer, best known as the last Governor of Hong Kong and a former chairman of the BBC Trust.
E33725 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: Chris Patten | Statement: [University of Oxford, chancellor, Chris Patten]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chris Patten
Context triple: [University of Oxford, chancellor, Chris Patten]
  • A. Norman Lamont
    Norman Lamont is a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister John Major in the early 1990s.
  • B. Tony Wu
    Tony Wu is a member of the technical team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
  • C. Nelson Chai
    Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
  • D. Joe Tsai
    Joe Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group who owns the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
  • E. T.H. Chan
    T.H. Chan was a Hong Kong real estate developer and philanthropist whose family’s major donation led to Harvard’s public health school bearing his name.
  • 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: Chris Patten
Triple: [University of Oxford, chancellor, Chris Patten]
Generated description
Chris Patten is a British Conservative politician and life peer, best known as the last Governor of Hong Kong and a former chairman of the BBC Trust.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chris Patten
Target entity description: Chris Patten is a British Conservative politician and life peer, best known as the last Governor of Hong Kong and a former chairman of the BBC Trust.
  • A. Norman Lamont
    Norman Lamont is a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister John Major in the early 1990s.
  • B. Tony Wu
    Tony Wu is a member of the technical team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
  • C. Nelson Chai
    Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
  • D. Joe Tsai
    Joe Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group who owns the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
  • E. T.H. Chan
    T.H. Chan was a Hong Kong real estate developer and philanthropist whose family’s major donation led to Harvard’s public health school bearing his name.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d71a10c8190894c86e7a67c5974 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3837622cc819096df20695413b5c0 completed March 1, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a38470215c8190b6541ab567ca5721 completed March 1, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a384cbfbec81909a3ae67f51dadfb3 completed March 1, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.