Triple

T416933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Young E8012 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Secretary of the Board of Longitude
The Secretary of the Board of Longitude was an official role in the British government responsible for administering and recording the work of the Board, which oversaw efforts to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea.
 E52904 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: Secretary of the Board of Longitude | Statement: [Thomas Young, positionHeld, Secretary of the Board of Longitude]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Secretary of the Board of Longitude
Context triple: [Thomas Young, positionHeld, Secretary of the Board of Longitude]
  • A. President of the Royal Society
    The President of the Royal Society is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, overseeing its scientific leadership, governance, and public representation.
  • B. Treasurer of the Navy
    The Treasurer of the Navy was a senior British government office responsible for overseeing naval finances and expenditures within the Royal Navy administration.
  • C. Postmaster General of Great Britain
    The Postmaster General of Great Britain was the senior government official historically responsible for overseeing the national postal system and related communications services in Great Britain.
  • D. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
    The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics is a prestigious endowed chair in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, historically held by some of the world's most influential scientists.
  • E. Secretary of the Admiralty
    The Secretary of the Admiralty was a senior British naval administrative office responsible for managing the correspondence, records, and day-to-day business of the Royal Navy’s governing body.
  • 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: Secretary of the Board of Longitude
Triple: [Thomas Young, positionHeld, Secretary of the Board of Longitude]
Generated description
The Secretary of the Board of Longitude was an official role in the British government responsible for administering and recording the work of the Board, which oversaw efforts to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Secretary of the Board of Longitude
Target entity description: The Secretary of the Board of Longitude was an official role in the British government responsible for administering and recording the work of the Board, which oversaw efforts to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea.
  • A. President of the Royal Society
    The President of the Royal Society is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, overseeing its scientific leadership, governance, and public representation.
  • B. Treasurer of the Navy
    The Treasurer of the Navy was a senior British government office responsible for overseeing naval finances and expenditures within the Royal Navy administration.
  • C. Postmaster General of Great Britain
    The Postmaster General of Great Britain was the senior government official historically responsible for overseeing the national postal system and related communications services in Great Britain.
  • D. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
    The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics is a prestigious endowed chair in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, historically held by some of the world's most influential scientists.
  • E. Secretary of the Admiralty
    The Secretary of the Admiralty was a senior British naval administrative office responsible for managing the correspondence, records, and day-to-day business of the Royal Navy’s governing body.
  • 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_69a2e7f1d1bc81909cf2dc9754a3c334 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee8ea7b88190b4970b9c2877fbd8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a423a4debc819098e13855b550a72e completed March 1, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a42418a28c81909ee31dfb1819b87f completed March 1, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a42488226c81908c9c81567fed0efa completed March 1, 2026, 11:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.