Triple

T5886526
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Surveyor-General of the Ordnance E130876 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object William Roy
William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
E552790 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: William Roy | Statement: [Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, notableOfficeHolder, William Roy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Roy
Context triple: [Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, notableOfficeHolder, William Roy]
  • A. George Johnstone
    George Johnstone was an 18th-century British naval officer and colonial administrator who played a key role in governing British territories in North America.
  • B. Lewis Clive
    Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
  • C. Colin Campbell
    Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for leading the relief of Lucknow and playing a key role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • D. Edward Pakenham
    Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
  • E. Sir Andrew Clarke
    Sir Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his influential role in shaping British policy and governance in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Malay Peninsula.
  • 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: William Roy
Triple: [Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, notableOfficeHolder, William Roy]
Generated description
William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Roy
Target entity description: William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
  • A. George Johnstone
    George Johnstone was an 18th-century British naval officer and colonial administrator who played a key role in governing British territories in North America.
  • B. Lewis Clive
    Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
  • C. Colin Campbell
    Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for leading the relief of Lucknow and playing a key role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • D. Edward Pakenham
    Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
  • E. Sir Andrew Clarke
    Sir Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his influential role in shaping British policy and governance in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Malay Peninsula.
  • 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_69c0085628dc8190b334c1b44c067efc completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0367a61648190bf97746caa4061fe completed March 22, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b13ce8788190b07771180f0fa376 completed March 23, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b1e67c448190808b3e93de8f6eed completed March 23, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b286537481908741b9e0a368f94f completed March 23, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:57 p.m.