Triple

T555177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hernán Cortés E11926 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Captain General of New Spain
The Captain General of New Spain was the highest military and often de facto political authority in the early Spanish colonial administration of Mexico, a role famously held by conquistador Hernán Cortés.
E69756 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: Captain General of New Spain | Statement: [Hernán Cortés, positionHeld, Captain General of New Spain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain General of New Spain
Context triple: [Hernán Cortés, positionHeld, Captain General of New Spain]
  • A. Governor of Las Californias
    The Governor of Las Californias was the chief Spanish colonial official overseeing civil and military administration in the vast province that once encompassed present-day California and Baja California.
  • B. Captain General of the Spanish Armed Forces
    The Captain General of the Spanish Armed Forces is the highest military rank in Spain, traditionally held by the reigning monarch as the supreme commander of the country's armed forces.
  • C. Adelantado of Florida
    Adelantado of Florida was a Spanish royal title granting Juan Ponce de León authority to conquer, govern, and colonize the region of Florida in the early 16th century.
  • D. Admiral Juan de Lángara
    Admiral Juan de Lángara was a Spanish naval officer and fleet commander of the late 18th century, noted for his role in major Mediterranean operations during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • E. Ignacio de la Carrera
    Ignacio de la Carrera was a Chilean patriot and politician who played a key role in the country’s early independence movement as part of its first national governing body.
  • 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: Captain General of New Spain
Triple: [Hernán Cortés, positionHeld, Captain General of New Spain]
Generated description
The Captain General of New Spain was the highest military and often de facto political authority in the early Spanish colonial administration of Mexico, a role famously held by conquistador Hernán Cortés.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain General of New Spain
Target entity description: The Captain General of New Spain was the highest military and often de facto political authority in the early Spanish colonial administration of Mexico, a role famously held by conquistador Hernán Cortés.
  • A. Governor of Las Californias
    The Governor of Las Californias was the chief Spanish colonial official overseeing civil and military administration in the vast province that once encompassed present-day California and Baja California.
  • B. Captain General of the Spanish Armed Forces
    The Captain General of the Spanish Armed Forces is the highest military rank in Spain, traditionally held by the reigning monarch as the supreme commander of the country's armed forces.
  • C. Adelantado of Florida
    Adelantado of Florida was a Spanish royal title granting Juan Ponce de León authority to conquer, govern, and colonize the region of Florida in the early 16th century.
  • D. Admiral Juan de Lángara
    Admiral Juan de Lángara was a Spanish naval officer and fleet commander of the late 18th century, noted for his role in major Mediterranean operations during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • E. Ignacio de la Carrera
    Ignacio de la Carrera was a Chilean patriot and politician who played a key role in the country’s early independence movement as part of its first national governing body.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4991dd7008190a6c1bc8bc832456d completed March 1, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e632e7c48190b211f7fcc4903dea completed March 2, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e6cfdbf48190814dfb9d2bd8dbf5 completed March 2, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e79f2a8881909210998edba8a2a8 completed March 2, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.