Triple

T362773
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Treaty of Waitangi E7891 entity
Predicate primaryAuthor P4244 FINISHED
Object William Hobson
William Hobson was a British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand, best known for overseeing and signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
E46034 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: William Hobson | Statement: [Treaty of Waitangi, primaryAuthor, William Hobson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hobson
Context triple: [Treaty of Waitangi, primaryAuthor, William Hobson]
  • A. Governor Edward John Eyre
    Governor Edward John Eyre was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for his brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, which sparked major controversy and debate over imperial governance and human rights.
  • B. Anthony van Diemen
    Anthony van Diemen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for expanding Dutch influence in Asia and for lending his name to Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
  • C. James Cook
    James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
  • D. Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
  • E. Cecil Rhodes
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • 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: William Hobson
Triple: [Treaty of Waitangi, primaryAuthor, William Hobson]
Generated description
William Hobson was a British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand, best known for overseeing and signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hobson
Target entity description: William Hobson was a British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand, best known for overseeing and signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
  • A. Governor Edward John Eyre
    Governor Edward John Eyre was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for his brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, which sparked major controversy and debate over imperial governance and human rights.
  • B. Anthony van Diemen
    Anthony van Diemen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for expanding Dutch influence in Asia and for lending his name to Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
  • C. James Cook
    James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
  • D. Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
  • E. Cecil Rhodes
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • 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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebcfb0f48190b9a9010c7837ac58 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e86533a481909bab5f0b52114c6a completed March 1, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e99fd210819099e83cd183a4daa7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3ea45c86c8190a6c215430601ad15 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.