Triple

T4435978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir John Colborne E95650 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Colborne
Colborne is a surname most notably associated with Sir John Colborne, a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Governor of the Cape Colony.
 E440774 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: Colborne | Statement: [Sir John Colborne, familyName, Colborne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colborne
Context triple: [Sir John Colborne, familyName, Colborne]
  • A. Lambton
    Lambton is a residential suburb within the city of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, known for its local parks, schools, and community facilities.
  • B. Lambton
    Lambton is a residential neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, known for its proximity to the Humber River and its mix of historic and suburban housing.
  • C. Bowmanville
    Bowmanville is a community in Ontario, Canada, serving as the main urban and administrative centre of the municipality of Clarington in the Durham Region.
  • D. Petrolia
    Petrolia is a small, remote community in Northern California known as a gateway to the rugged, sparsely populated Lost Coast region.
  • E. Clarington
    Clarington is a largely suburban and rural municipality in Ontario, Canada, located at the eastern edge of the Greater Toronto Area.
  • 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: Colborne
Triple: [Sir John Colborne, familyName, Colborne]
Generated description
Colborne is a surname most notably associated with Sir John Colborne, a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Governor of the Cape Colony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colborne
Target entity description: Colborne is a surname most notably associated with Sir John Colborne, a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Governor of the Cape Colony.
  • A. Lambton
    Lambton is a residential neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, known for its proximity to the Humber River and its mix of historic and suburban housing.
  • B. Lambton
    Lambton is a residential suburb within the city of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, known for its local parks, schools, and community facilities.
  • C. Bowmanville
    Bowmanville is a community in Ontario, Canada, serving as the main urban and administrative centre of the municipality of Clarington in the Durham Region.
  • D. Petrolia
    Petrolia is a small, remote community in Northern California known as a gateway to the rugged, sparsely populated Lost Coast region.
  • E. Clarington
    Clarington is a largely suburban and rural municipality in Ontario, Canada, located at the eastern edge of the Greater Toronto Area.
  • 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_69b3453ea2b48190a26f154b3b8fece5 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35589f8608190b0820d36beaacf44 completed March 13, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b61377180c8190898300fe0cd77433 completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b6147ccef88190aadc1c3481a7a23e completed March 15, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b61896cc0c8190bff3af52bbadb4e1 completed March 15, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:31 p.m.