Triple

T4318595
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice E96454 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Thomas Erskine May
Thomas Erskine May was a 19th-century British constitutional theorist and parliamentary official whose writings became the authoritative guide to the procedures and law of the UK Parliament.
E430557 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: Thomas Erskine May | Statement: [Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice, author, Thomas Erskine May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Erskine May
Context triple: [Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice, author, Thomas Erskine May]
  • A. Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
    Thomas Edlyne Tomlins was a 19th-century English legal writer and editor known for his work on authoritative compilations and commentaries on British statutes and law.
  • B. Roger Hale Sheaffe
    Roger Hale Sheaffe was a British Army officer and colonial administrator in Canada, noted for his leadership during the War of 1812.
  • C. J. G. Jeffreys
    J. G. Jeffreys was a British educator best known for establishing the progressive independent Bryanston School in Dorset in the early 20th century.
  • D. George Busk
    George Busk was a 19th-century British surgeon, zoologist, and paleontologist known for his work on marine invertebrates and fossil mammals, and for his involvement in leading Victorian scientific societies.
  • E. Sir Henry Pellatt
    Sir Henry Pellatt was a wealthy Canadian financier and military officer best known for commissioning and owning Toronto’s grand castle-like mansion, Casa Loma.
  • 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: Thomas Erskine May
Triple: [Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice, author, Thomas Erskine May]
Generated description
Thomas Erskine May was a 19th-century British constitutional theorist and parliamentary official whose writings became the authoritative guide to the procedures and law of the UK Parliament.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Erskine May
Target entity description: Thomas Erskine May was a 19th-century British constitutional theorist and parliamentary official whose writings became the authoritative guide to the procedures and law of the UK Parliament.
  • A. Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
    Thomas Edlyne Tomlins was a 19th-century English legal writer and editor known for his work on authoritative compilations and commentaries on British statutes and law.
  • B. Roger Hale Sheaffe
    Roger Hale Sheaffe was a British Army officer and colonial administrator in Canada, noted for his leadership during the War of 1812.
  • C. J. G. Jeffreys
    J. G. Jeffreys was a British educator best known for establishing the progressive independent Bryanston School in Dorset in the early 20th century.
  • D. George Busk
    George Busk was a 19th-century British surgeon, zoologist, and paleontologist known for his work on marine invertebrates and fossil mammals, and for his involvement in leading Victorian scientific societies.
  • E. Sir Henry Pellatt
    Sir Henry Pellatt was a wealthy Canadian financier and military officer best known for commissioning and owning Toronto’s grand castle-like mansion, Casa Loma.
  • 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_69b345422aac81909ddbadae437d122e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b350f883c88190a2d72f7d124eef43 completed March 12, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5d089ab5c8190ba1691f8ce9b7b4f completed March 14, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5d0f6d1d48190a3ecd1765043ac58 completed March 14, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5d18381288190948a7a0c42dc8cbf completed March 14, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:12 p.m.