Triple

T5465039
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jeremy Black E122686 entity
Predicate hasWritten P2831 FINISHED
Object The British Seaborne Empire
The British Seaborne Empire is a historical study that examines how maritime power and overseas expansion shaped the rise, structure, and global impact of the British Empire.
E520089 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: The British Seaborne Empire | Statement: [Jeremy Black, hasWritten, The British Seaborne Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The British Seaborne Empire
Context triple: [Jeremy Black, hasWritten, The British Seaborne Empire]
  • A. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
    Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain is a historical study that examines the rise, structure, and legacy of the British Empire within a global context.
  • B. Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
    "Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British" is a historical book examining how the British Empire shaped the culture, identity, and everyday lives of people in Britain itself.
  • C. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • D. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
    The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 is a major historical study by John Darwin that analyzes the development, global reach, and eventual decline of the British Empire in the modern era.
  • E. The Birth of Britain
    The Birth of Britain is a historical work by Winston Churchill that chronicles the early history and formation of the British Isles up to the medieval period.
  • 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: The British Seaborne Empire
Triple: [Jeremy Black, hasWritten, The British Seaborne Empire]
Generated description
The British Seaborne Empire is a historical study that examines how maritime power and overseas expansion shaped the rise, structure, and global impact of the British Empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The British Seaborne Empire
Target entity description: The British Seaborne Empire is a historical study that examines how maritime power and overseas expansion shaped the rise, structure, and global impact of the British Empire.
  • A. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
    Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain is a historical study that examines the rise, structure, and legacy of the British Empire within a global context.
  • B. Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
    "Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British" is a historical book examining how the British Empire shaped the culture, identity, and everyday lives of people in Britain itself.
  • C. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • D. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
    The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 is a major historical study by John Darwin that analyzes the development, global reach, and eventual decline of the British Empire in the modern era.
  • E. The Birth of Britain
    The Birth of Britain is a historical work by Winston Churchill that chronicles the early history and formation of the British Isles up to the medieval period.
  • 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_69bd4643f16081908d7f29e08096115a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd920590b481909b92091678ff1414 completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf41524c3c81908425a02162496c15 completed March 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf41c9cc5c81909506d0b1cd2041d0 completed March 22, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4220a9ac8190bb9dab529dfe8749 completed March 22, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.