Triple

T4698286
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident) E104203 entity
Predicate notableAftermath P1706 FINISHED
Object Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament
Robert Jenkins was an 18th-century British mariner whose allegedly severed ear, presented before Parliament, became a powerful symbol that helped inflame public opinion and contributed to the outbreak of the War of Jenkins’ Ear against Spain.
E462741 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: Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament | Statement: [Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident), notableAftermath, Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament
Context triple: [Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident), notableAftermath, Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament]
  • A. Lord George Gordon
    Lord George Gordon was an 18th-century British politician and agitator best known for leading the anti-Catholic movement that sparked the violent Gordon Riots in London in 1780.
  • B. Sidney Rowlatt
    Sidney Rowlatt was a British judge and law lord best known for chairing the committee that led to the controversial Rowlatt Act in colonial India.
  • C. Sir Henry Pottinger
    Sir Henry Pottinger was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who became the first Governor of Hong Kong and played a key role in shaping early British-Chinese relations in the 19th century.
  • D. Ian Sharp
    Ian Sharp is a British film and television director known for his work on action-driven projects, including sequences in the James Bond film "GoldenEye."
  • E. Airey Neave
    Airey Neave was a British Conservative politician, war hero, and close adviser to Margaret Thatcher who was assassinated by an Irish republican paramilitary group in 1979.
  • 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: Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament
Triple: [Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident), notableAftermath, Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament]
Generated description
Robert Jenkins was an 18th-century British mariner whose allegedly severed ear, presented before Parliament, became a powerful symbol that helped inflame public opinion and contributed to the outbreak of the War of Jenkins’ Ear against Spain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Jenkins reportedly displayed his severed ear before the British Parliament
Target entity description: Robert Jenkins was an 18th-century British mariner whose allegedly severed ear, presented before Parliament, became a powerful symbol that helped inflame public opinion and contributed to the outbreak of the War of Jenkins’ Ear against Spain.
  • A. Lord George Gordon
    Lord George Gordon was an 18th-century British politician and agitator best known for leading the anti-Catholic movement that sparked the violent Gordon Riots in London in 1780.
  • B. Sidney Rowlatt
    Sidney Rowlatt was a British judge and law lord best known for chairing the committee that led to the controversial Rowlatt Act in colonial India.
  • C. Sir Henry Pottinger
    Sir Henry Pottinger was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who became the first Governor of Hong Kong and played a key role in shaping early British-Chinese relations in the 19th century.
  • D. Ian Sharp
    Ian Sharp is a British film and television director known for his work on action-driven projects, including sequences in the James Bond film "GoldenEye."
  • E. Airey Neave
    Airey Neave was a British Conservative politician, war hero, and close adviser to Margaret Thatcher who was assassinated by an Irish republican paramilitary group in 1979.
  • 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_69bd43e9b88481908582103dcadff3d9 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd63b57e1c8190962d97e4805974ed completed March 20, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be03c7469081908cf587b2356a4320 completed March 21, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be04c5549c819087204ac7e2e0e8ea completed March 21, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be05970dcc8190a86771d09f27d9f2 completed March 21, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:17 p.m.