Triple

T4771832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales E105944 entity
Predicate defendingCommander P14510 FINISHED
Object Admiral Sir Tom Phillips
Admiral Sir Tom Phillips was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the British Eastern Fleet’s capital ships Force Z during World War II and was killed when his flagship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
 E466279 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: Admiral Sir Tom Phillips | Statement: [Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, defendingCommander, Admiral Sir Tom Phillips]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Admiral Sir Tom Phillips
Context triple: [Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, defendingCommander, Admiral Sir Tom Phillips]
  • A. Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse
    Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and oversaw British military operations during the Falklands War.
  • B. Admiral Sir John Tovey
    Admiral Sir John Tovey was a senior Royal Navy officer best known for commanding British forces in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck during the Second World War.
  • C. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser
    Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser was a senior Royal Navy officer best known for commanding British naval forces in the Arctic and leading the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst during World War II.
  • D. Admiral Sackville Carden
    Admiral Sackville Carden was a British Royal Navy officer best known for planning and initially leading the Allied naval campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles during World War I.
  • E. Admiral James Somerville
    Admiral James Somerville was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War II, noted for his leadership of major naval forces in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
  • 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: Admiral Sir Tom Phillips
Triple: [Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, defendingCommander, Admiral Sir Tom Phillips]
Generated description
Admiral Sir Tom Phillips was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the British Eastern Fleet’s capital ships Force Z during World War II and was killed when his flagship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Admiral Sir Tom Phillips
Target entity description: Admiral Sir Tom Phillips was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the British Eastern Fleet’s capital ships Force Z during World War II and was killed when his flagship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
  • A. Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse
    Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and oversaw British military operations during the Falklands War.
  • B. Admiral Sir John Tovey
    Admiral Sir John Tovey was a senior Royal Navy officer best known for commanding British forces in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck during the Second World War.
  • C. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser
    Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser was a senior Royal Navy officer best known for commanding British naval forces in the Arctic and leading the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst during World War II.
  • D. Admiral Sackville Carden
    Admiral Sackville Carden was a British Royal Navy officer best known for planning and initially leading the Allied naval campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles during World War I.
  • E. Admiral James Somerville
    Admiral James Somerville was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War II, noted for his leadership of major naval forces in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
  • 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_69bd43f226fc8190b867cc249c2a9042 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd655e5dcc8190a932be9b1baaffb2 completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a96c7288190b37f5a89a438398b completed March 21, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3af59ef88190a5acc493978d412e completed March 21, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3c8533fc8190b512d3fec34e7e28 completed March 21, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.