Triple

T599806
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portuguese Empire E11466 entity
Predicate notableGovernor P5756 FINISHED
Object Tomé de Sousa
Tomé de Sousa was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and military officer best known as the first Governor-General of Brazil, where he founded the city of Salvador and helped establish colonial administration.
E74725 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: Tomé de Sousa | Statement: [Portuguese Empire, notableGovernor, Tomé de Sousa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tomé de Sousa
Context triple: [Portuguese Empire, notableGovernor, Tomé de Sousa]
  • A. Salgueiro Maia
    Salgueiro Maia was a Portuguese army captain who became one of the central leaders of the 1974 military coup that peacefully overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship.
  • B. Joaquim de Almeida
    Joaquim de Almeida is a Portuguese actor known for his charismatic portrayals of villains and antiheroes in international films and television, including prominent roles in action and crime dramas.
  • C. Simão Rodrigues
    Simão Rodrigues was a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest and one of the original companions of Ignatius of Loyola who helped establish and spread the Society of Jesus in Portugal.
  • D. João Braz de Aviz
    João Braz de Aviz is a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church known for leading the Vatican office responsible for religious orders and institutes of consecrated life.
  • E. Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
    Henrique Lopes de Mendonça was a Portuguese playwright, poet, and naval officer best known for writing the lyrics to Portugal’s national anthem, “A Portuguesa.”
  • 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: Tomé de Sousa
Triple: [Portuguese Empire, notableGovernor, Tomé de Sousa]
Generated description
Tomé de Sousa was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and military officer best known as the first Governor-General of Brazil, where he founded the city of Salvador and helped establish colonial administration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tomé de Sousa
Target entity description: Tomé de Sousa was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and military officer best known as the first Governor-General of Brazil, where he founded the city of Salvador and helped establish colonial administration.
  • A. Salgueiro Maia
    Salgueiro Maia was a Portuguese army captain who became one of the central leaders of the 1974 military coup that peacefully overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship.
  • B. Joaquim de Almeida
    Joaquim de Almeida is a Portuguese actor known for his charismatic portrayals of villains and antiheroes in international films and television, including prominent roles in action and crime dramas.
  • C. Simão Rodrigues
    Simão Rodrigues was a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest and one of the original companions of Ignatius of Loyola who helped establish and spread the Society of Jesus in Portugal.
  • D. João Braz de Aviz
    João Braz de Aviz is a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church known for leading the Vatican office responsible for religious orders and institutes of consecrated life.
  • E. Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
    Henrique Lopes de Mendonça was a Portuguese playwright, poet, and naval officer best known for writing the lyrics to Portugal’s national anthem, “A Portuguesa.”
  • 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_69a49d78c0f08190b83ad89062ccb0b9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a51f37f8748190bff705fd2bbc489c completed March 2, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a51fd2fe2881909a2cddf344149eeb completed March 2, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a52036174c81909a1e2aabad8fdad1 completed March 2, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.