Triple

T3775131

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Governor of Ceylon	`E83288`	entity
Predicate	replacedBy	`P101`	FINISHED
Object	office of Governor-General of Ceylon The office of Governor-General of Ceylon was the post-independence viceregal position representing the British monarch as head of state in Ceylon until the country became a republic.	`E386440`	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: office of Governor-General of Ceylon | Statement: [Governor of Ceylon, replacedBy, office of Governor-General of Ceylon]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: office of Governor-General of Ceylon
Context triple: [Governor of Ceylon, replacedBy, office of Governor-General of Ceylon]

A. Government of Ceylon
The Government of Ceylon was the central governing authority of the British Crown colony and later dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until the country became a republic in 1972.
B. Ceylon Civil Service
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
C. State Council of Ceylon
The State Council of Ceylon was a semi-legislative, semi-executive body established under British colonial rule that served as the main governing institution of Ceylon before independence.
D. Office of the Governor-General of New Zealand
The Office of the Governor-General of New Zealand is the official administrative body that supports the Governor-General in carrying out the constitutional, ceremonial, and community roles of the Crown in New Zealand.
E. Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
The Colonial Secretary of Ceylon was a senior British colonial administrative post responsible for overseeing civil governance and acting as a chief advisor to the Governor in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
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: office of Governor-General of Ceylon
Triple: [Governor of Ceylon, replacedBy, office of Governor-General of Ceylon]

Generated description

The office of Governor-General of Ceylon was the post-independence viceregal position representing the British monarch as head of state in Ceylon until the country became a republic.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: office of Governor-General of Ceylon
Target entity description: The office of Governor-General of Ceylon was the post-independence viceregal position representing the British monarch as head of state in Ceylon until the country became a republic.

A. Government of Ceylon
The Government of Ceylon was the central governing authority of the British Crown colony and later dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until the country became a republic in 1972.
B. Ceylon Civil Service
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
C. State Council of Ceylon
The State Council of Ceylon was a semi-legislative, semi-executive body established under British colonial rule that served as the main governing institution of Ceylon before independence.
D. Office of the Governor-General of New Zealand
The Office of the Governor-General of New Zealand is the official administrative body that supports the Governor-General in carrying out the constitutional, ceremonial, and community roles of the Crown in New Zealand.
E. Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
The Colonial Secretary of Ceylon was a senior British colonial administrative post responsible for overseeing civil governance and acting as a chief advisor to the Governor in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
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_69ad8b235e608190b5a2b1d1bfcef50b`	completed	March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69adcc5ac9688190bc921cd3ba1d0580`	completed	March 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69b4e53209888190823412fabacbc914`	completed	March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69b4e60c23608190977198b6344ff09d`	completed	March 14, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69b4e686bf2c8190aac01d6c1014c1d4`	completed	March 14, 2026, 4:39 a.m.

Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:36 p.m.