Triple

T30884337

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Battle of Shaykan	`E786716`	entity
Predicate	primaryOpposingLeaderEgyptians	`P204213`	FINISHED
Object	Colonel William Hicks Colonel William Hicks was a British Army officer who led an ill-fated Egyptian expeditionary force against Mahdist rebels in Sudan, culminating in his death at the disastrous Battle of Shaykan in 1883.	`E1937086`	NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 William Hicks | Statement: [Battle of Shaykan, primaryOpposingLeaderEgyptians, Colonel William Hicks]

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 William Hicks
Triple: [Battle of Shaykan, primaryOpposingLeaderEgyptians, Colonel William Hicks]

Generated description

Colonel William Hicks was a British Army officer who led an ill-fated Egyptian expeditionary force against Mahdist rebels in Sudan, culminating in his death at the disastrous Battle of Shaykan in 1883.

PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target predicate: primaryOpposingLeaderEgyptians
Context triple: [Battle of Shaykan, primaryOpposingLeaderEgyptians, Colonel William Hicks]

A. opponentAtBattleOfTheNile
Indicates that one entity was an opposing combatant of the other in the Battle of the Nile.
B. primaryOpposingLeaderMahdists
Indicates the person who serves as the main opposing leader of the Mahdists in a given conflict or context.
C. majorPharaoh
Indicates that the subject is recognized as a principal or highly significant pharaoh in relation to the object (such as a period, dynasty, or context).
D. primaryTacticEgyptians
Indicates the main tactic or strategy predominantly used by the Egyptians in a given conflict, context, or operation.
E. peaceTreatyEgyptianLeader
Indicates that a peace treaty was established or signed involving an Egyptian leader as a principal party.
F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69f224bbfa7c81908448e0c261c523e3`	completed	April 29, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_6a034af7066c81908719bff353d77b16`	completed	May 12, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a28c7e394148190879e7289b948c3ac`	completed	June 10, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a28cb64769081908e49db0f66024852`	completed	June 10, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a28cc6d10c48190b4d80bb129c95229`	completed	June 10, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
PD	Predicate disambiguation	`batch_6a034a2fc2308190b0b8fbd458a39323`	completed	May 12, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
PDg	Predicate description generation	`batch_6a034af656d88190881820908f6d2958`	completed	May 12, 2026, 3:44 p.m.

Created at: April 29, 2026, 8:48 p.m.