Triple

T394157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Suez Canal E8943 entity
Predicate chiefEngineer P616 FINISHED
Object Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
E49996 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: Ferdinand de Lesseps | Statement: [Suez Canal, chiefEngineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand de Lesseps
Context triple: [Suez Canal, chiefEngineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps]
  • A. Gustave Eiffel
    Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Eiffel Tower and contributing to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
  • B. Guillaume-Henri Dufour
    Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general, engineer, and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross and played a key role in modern Swiss military and civil infrastructure.
  • C. Herman Willem Daendels
    Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch military officer and statesman best known for his Napoleonic-era reforms and infrastructure projects as a colonial administrator in the early 19th century.
  • D. Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
    Alexandre Colonna-Walewski was a 19th-century French statesman and diplomat who served notably as foreign minister under Napoleon III and was widely regarded as an illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • E. André Maginot
    André Maginot was a French politician and Minister of War best known for initiating the fortified defensive system along France’s eastern border that came to bear his name.
  • 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: Ferdinand de Lesseps
Triple: [Suez Canal, chiefEngineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps]
Generated description
Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand de Lesseps
Target entity description: Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
  • A. Gustave Eiffel
    Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Eiffel Tower and contributing to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
  • B. Guillaume-Henri Dufour
    Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general, engineer, and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross and played a key role in modern Swiss military and civil infrastructure.
  • C. Herman Willem Daendels
    Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch military officer and statesman best known for his Napoleonic-era reforms and infrastructure projects as a colonial administrator in the early 19th century.
  • D. Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
    Alexandre Colonna-Walewski was a 19th-century French statesman and diplomat who served notably as foreign minister under Napoleon III and was widely regarded as an illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • E. André Maginot
    André Maginot was a French politician and Minister of War best known for initiating the fortified defensive system along France’s eastern border that came to bear his name.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec77a8a08190b6f96373aa8c1346 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a405f93f448190aa20c8a356a24b89 completed March 1, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a406b81e708190b7561fda29cf4b79 completed March 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4081238e881908f0c79ab2d7d774e completed March 1, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.