Triple
T4777377
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Harold Macmillan |
E106083
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Secretary of State for Defence (UK) |
E8425
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 State for Defence (UK) | Statement: [Harold Macmillan, positionHeld, Secretary of State for Defence (UK)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secretary of State for Defence (UK) Context triple: [Harold Macmillan, positionHeld, Secretary of State for Defence (UK)]
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A.
Secretary of State for Defence
chosen
The Secretary of State for Defence is the UK government minister responsible for overseeing the country's armed forces and defence policy.
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B.
Minister of Defence
The Minister of Defence is the senior government official responsible for directing national defence policy and overseeing the country’s armed forces.
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C.
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence
The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence is the most senior civilian official in the UK Ministry of Defence, responsible for its administration, policy implementation, and overall departmental management.
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D.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence is a junior ministerial position in the UK government responsible for assisting senior defence ministers in managing national defence policy and the armed forces.
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E.
Secretary of the Department of Defence
The Secretary of the Department of Defence is the Australian Government’s top civilian defence official, responsible for leading the department and advising on defence policy, strategy, and administration.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd43f3074c8190937e7b0a457fe9f1 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd65881e2c8190aa5b57759885b2bb |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be43caec588190880c47f11d3f2daf |
completed | March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.