Triple

T4133406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Approaches Tactical Unit E85091 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Gilbert Roberts
Gilbert Roberts was a British Royal Navy officer and tactical innovator best known for developing anti-U-boat convoy tactics during World War II.
E425498 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: Gilbert Roberts | Statement: [Western Approaches Tactical Unit, notableCommander, Gilbert Roberts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gilbert Roberts
Context triple: [Western Approaches Tactical Unit, notableCommander, Gilbert Roberts]
  • A. Gilbert Roberts
    Gilbert Roberts was a prominent British civil engineer renowned for designing major long-span bridges in the mid-20th century.
  • B. William Roberts
    William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • C. William Roberts
    William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
  • D. Charles Groves
    Charles Groves was a distinguished British conductor renowned for his interpretations of English orchestral music and his leadership of major UK orchestras in the mid-20th century.
  • E. John Church
    John Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
  • 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: Gilbert Roberts
Triple: [Western Approaches Tactical Unit, notableCommander, Gilbert Roberts]
Generated description
Gilbert Roberts was a British Royal Navy officer and tactical innovator best known for developing anti-U-boat convoy tactics during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gilbert Roberts
Target entity description: Gilbert Roberts was a British Royal Navy officer and tactical innovator best known for developing anti-U-boat convoy tactics during World War II.
  • A. Gilbert Roberts
    Gilbert Roberts was a prominent British civil engineer renowned for designing major long-span bridges in the mid-20th century.
  • B. William Roberts
    William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
  • C. William Roberts
    William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
  • D. Charles Groves
    Charles Groves was a distinguished British conductor renowned for his interpretations of English orchestral music and his leadership of major UK orchestras in the mid-20th century.
  • E. John Church
    John Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
  • 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_69aed935ccd881909dc61f81bcdb7a78 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02306d608190bf8945d560f87c21 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b75d07e481909794a08d6bc52358 completed March 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b7e7f48881908ebb773499aebd5e completed March 14, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b881c80081909af084ff4b43b01e completed March 14, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:43 p.m.