Triple

T376320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vasco da Gama E8379 entity
Predicate appointedBy P257 FINISHED
Object King John III of Portugal
King John III of Portugal was a 16th-century Portuguese monarch whose reign oversaw the height of Portugal’s overseas empire and major exploratory and colonial ventures.
E53715 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: King John III of Portugal | Statement: [Vasco da Gama, appointedBy, King John III of Portugal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King John III of Portugal
Context triple: [Vasco da Gama, appointedBy, King John III of Portugal]
  • A. John II of Portugal
    John II of Portugal was the 15th-century king who consolidated royal power at home and advanced Portuguese maritime exploration, helping to lay the foundations of Portugal’s overseas empire.
  • B. King Manuel I of Portugal
    King Manuel I of Portugal was the monarch who oversaw the beginning of Portugal’s global maritime empire, including sponsoring Vasco da Gama’s pioneering sea voyage to India.
  • C. Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
    Henrique Lopes de Mendonça was a Portuguese playwright, poet, and naval officer best known for writing the lyrics to Portugal’s national anthem, “A Portuguesa.”
  • D. Pedro Nuno Santos
    Pedro Nuno Santos is a Portuguese politician who serves as a prominent figure in the Socialist Party and has held key government positions, including Minister of Infrastructure and Housing.
  • E. Henry the Navigator
    Henry the Navigator was a 15th-century Portuguese prince who sponsored pioneering voyages along the West African coast, helping launch Europe’s Age of Exploration and the Portuguese maritime empire.
  • 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: King John III of Portugal
Triple: [Vasco da Gama, appointedBy, King John III of Portugal]
Generated description
King John III of Portugal was a 16th-century Portuguese monarch whose reign oversaw the height of Portugal’s overseas empire and major exploratory and colonial ventures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King John III of Portugal
Target entity description: King John III of Portugal was a 16th-century Portuguese monarch whose reign oversaw the height of Portugal’s overseas empire and major exploratory and colonial ventures.
  • A. John II of Portugal
    John II of Portugal was the 15th-century king who consolidated royal power at home and advanced Portuguese maritime exploration, helping to lay the foundations of Portugal’s overseas empire.
  • B. King Manuel I of Portugal
    King Manuel I of Portugal was the monarch who oversaw the beginning of Portugal’s global maritime empire, including sponsoring Vasco da Gama’s pioneering sea voyage to India.
  • C. Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
    Henrique Lopes de Mendonça was a Portuguese playwright, poet, and naval officer best known for writing the lyrics to Portugal’s national anthem, “A Portuguesa.”
  • D. Pedro Nuno Santos
    Pedro Nuno Santos is a Portuguese politician who serves as a prominent figure in the Socialist Party and has held key government positions, including Minister of Infrastructure and Housing.
  • E. Henry the Navigator
    Henry the Navigator was a 15th-century Portuguese prince who sponsored pioneering voyages along the West African coast, helping launch Europe’s Age of Exploration and the Portuguese maritime empire.
  • 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec169a848190a577aa093c878839 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a42a11882081909636a47397fbfc13 completed March 1, 2026, 11:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a42a7dc3108190ad644aee25d95d50 completed March 1, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a42b19e7148190816b50e00319b12b completed March 1, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.