Triple

T381508
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Cavendish E8688 entity
Predicate paternalGrandfather P979 FINISHED
Object William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
E57558 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 Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire | Statement: [Henry Cavendish, paternalGrandfather, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
Context triple: [Henry Cavendish, paternalGrandfather, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire]
  • A. George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
    George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
  • B. Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
    Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
  • C. Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
    Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the son of Robert Clive (“Clive of India”) and for serving as Governor of Madras.
  • D. Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam
    Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, was an 18th–19th century Irish peer, art collector, and philanthropist whose bequest of his extensive art and manuscript collection led to the creation of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
  • E. Duke of Newcastle
    The Duke of Newcastle was a powerful 18th-century British Whig statesman and long-serving prime minister who played a central role in shaping Britain’s foreign policy during the lead-up to the Seven Years’ 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: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
Triple: [Henry Cavendish, paternalGrandfather, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire]
Generated description
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
Target entity description: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
  • A. George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
    George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
  • B. Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
    Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
  • C. Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
    Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the son of Robert Clive (“Clive of India”) and for serving as Governor of Madras.
  • D. Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam
    Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, was an 18th–19th century Irish peer, art collector, and philanthropist whose bequest of his extensive art and manuscript collection led to the creation of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
  • E. Duke of Newcastle
    The Duke of Newcastle was a powerful 18th-century British Whig statesman and long-serving prime minister who played a central role in shaping Britain’s foreign policy during the lead-up to the Seven Years’ 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee2b0ec481908fac41a4e1d20468 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44f5030f481908af8aa1d361b8124 completed March 1, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a450099260819085493682035fc1c1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4506406dc8190ba3d4e54c409051b completed March 1, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.