Triple

T5933202
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Treaty of 1819 with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor E131984 entity
Predicate signatoryRepresentative P4489 FINISHED
Object William Farquhar
William Farquhar was a Scottish colonial administrator and soldier best known as the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, where he played a key role in its early development under the British East India Company.
E555206 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 Farquhar | Statement: [Treaty of 1819 with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, signatoryRepresentative, William Farquhar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Farquhar
Context triple: [Treaty of 1819 with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, signatoryRepresentative, William Farquhar]
  • A. F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
    F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was a renowned British World War II secret agent and resistance organizer, famed for his daring missions in occupied France and his resilience under Gestapo capture and torture.
  • B. Sir Frederick Ballantyne
    Sir Frederick Ballantyne was a Vincentian physician and public figure who served as the long-standing Governor-General and representative of the British monarch in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  • C. Alan Cunningham
    Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
  • D. Robert Hart
    Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Thomas Stamford Raffles
    Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator best known as the founder of modern Singapore and a key figure in expanding British influence in Southeast Asia.
  • 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 Farquhar
Triple: [Treaty of 1819 with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, signatoryRepresentative, William Farquhar]
Generated description
William Farquhar was a Scottish colonial administrator and soldier best known as the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, where he played a key role in its early development under the British East India Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Farquhar
Target entity description: William Farquhar was a Scottish colonial administrator and soldier best known as the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, where he played a key role in its early development under the British East India Company.
  • A. F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
    F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was a renowned British World War II secret agent and resistance organizer, famed for his daring missions in occupied France and his resilience under Gestapo capture and torture.
  • B. Sir Frederick Ballantyne
    Sir Frederick Ballantyne was a Vincentian physician and public figure who served as the long-standing Governor-General and representative of the British monarch in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  • C. Alan Cunningham
    Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
  • D. Robert Hart
    Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Thomas Stamford Raffles
    Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator best known as the founder of modern Singapore and a key figure in expanding British influence in Southeast Asia.
  • 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_69c0085c55dc8190aa90e242c956e2fa completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0389f6fc881909527b928838ffcdd completed March 22, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0c064d2a4819096085668182cfde1 completed March 23, 2026, 4:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0c109b3288190928dc4539a2872c2 completed March 23, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0c1f6fe60819080a00976740b6a9c completed March 23, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4 p.m.