Triple

T5210516
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chancellor of the College of William & Mary E117620 entity
Predicate hasOfficeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Thomas Dawson
Thomas Dawson was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and academic who served as a leading administrator and educator at the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
E503443 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 Dawson | Statement: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Thomas Dawson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dawson
Context triple: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Thomas Dawson]
  • A. George Grant Elmslie
    George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
  • B. Thomas Bracken
    Thomas Bracken was a 19th-century New Zealand poet and politician best known for writing the words to what became one of the country's national anthems.
  • C. George Downie
    George Downie was a British Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
  • D. George Milne
    George Milne was a British Army general who commanded Allied forces on the Macedonian front during World War I.
  • E. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
    Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908, overseeing significant social and military reforms.
  • 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 Dawson
Triple: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Thomas Dawson]
Generated description
Thomas Dawson was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and academic who served as a leading administrator and educator at the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Dawson
Target entity description: Thomas Dawson was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and academic who served as a leading administrator and educator at the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
  • A. George Grant Elmslie
    George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
  • B. Thomas Bracken
    Thomas Bracken was a 19th-century New Zealand poet and politician best known for writing the words to what became one of the country's national anthems.
  • C. George Downie
    George Downie was a British Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
  • D. George Milne
    George Milne was a British Army general who commanded Allied forces on the Macedonian front during World War I.
  • E. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
    Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908, overseeing significant social and military reforms.
  • 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_69bd4464ba3c8190bc16b2ebbe42ddb0 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7a703e388190845dedd17252ddde completed March 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefd9e0b481908db7d6e2907b3b2b completed March 21, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef0b1fe9c8190bfc1be621c7c1c76 completed March 21, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef16739148190b9700228be7d07f9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:47 p.m.