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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.