Triple

T599050
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Boer War E11451 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
E221708 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: Sir George Pomeroy Colley | Statement: [First Boer War, commandedBy, Sir George Pomeroy Colley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Context triple: [First Boer War, commandedBy, Sir George Pomeroy Colley]
  • A. Arthur S. Carpender
    Arthur S. Carpender was a United States Navy admiral and World War II destroyer commander known for his leadership in the Pacific theater.
  • B. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • C. Charles L. Phillippi
    Charles L. Phillippi, better known as Deacon Phillippe, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his key role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the inaugural 1903 World Series.
  • D. James G. Blight
    James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
  • E. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • 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: Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Triple: [First Boer War, commandedBy, Sir George Pomeroy Colley]
Generated description
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Target entity description: Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
  • A. Arthur S. Carpender
    Arthur S. Carpender was a United States Navy admiral and World War II destroyer commander known for his leadership in the Pacific theater.
  • B. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • C. Charles L. Phillippi
    Charles L. Phillippi, better known as Deacon Phillippe, was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his key role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the inaugural 1903 World Series.
  • D. James G. Blight
    James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
  • E. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • 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_69a4932779b881908688590d59c71900 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49d776c6c819081b41a9b55041cd5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae02eda1048190b5452b849315863f completed March 8, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0386785c8190ae74e5f04a4809fc completed March 8, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae04253a80819092c112faddec1de1 completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.