Triple
T3559294
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Laing's Nek |
E75295
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
|
E370520
|
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: Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley | Statement: [Battle of Laing's Nek, commander, Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley Context triple: [Battle of Laing's Nek, commander, Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley]
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A.
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair was a senior British Army officer and decorated World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
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B.
Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey
Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his corps-level command roles in major campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
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C.
Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart
Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart was a British Army officer and colonial administrator noted for his service in the Napoleonic Wars, as Governor of the Cape Colony, and for his role and death during the Crimean War.
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D.
Major-General Sir Michael O’Moore Creagh
Major-General Sir Michael O’Moore Creagh was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the early North African campaigns of the Second World War.
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E.
Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billière
Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billière is a retired British Army officer and former Director of the SAS who led UK land forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
- 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: Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley Triple: [Battle of Laing's Nek, commander, Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley]
Generated description
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley Target entity description: Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
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A.
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair was a senior British Army officer and decorated World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
-
B.
Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey
Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his corps-level command roles in major campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
-
C.
Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart
Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart was a British Army officer and colonial administrator noted for his service in the Napoleonic Wars, as Governor of the Cape Colony, and for his role and death during the Crimean War.
-
D.
Major-General Sir Michael O’Moore Creagh
Major-General Sir Michael O’Moore Creagh was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the early North African campaigns of the Second World War.
-
E.
Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billière
Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billière is a retired British Army officer and former Director of the SAS who led UK land forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
- 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_69ad85d45090819086f34fb85d850a1e |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc0881d50819092332491b9527c9d |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b3bb9de4bc8190ba5d111465e66cf8 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 7:24 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b3bf85f4f881908bfd2dcfaa3537af |
completed | March 13, 2026, 7:40 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b3fb35c3a08190b50c87923037ee07 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:20 p.m.