Triple

T6603327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony of Vancouver Island E149054 entity
Predicate governor P537 FINISHED
Object Richard Blanshard
Richard Blanshard was a British colonial administrator who became the first governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island in the mid-19th century.
E607323 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: Richard Blanshard | Statement: [Colony of Vancouver Island, governor, Richard Blanshard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Blanshard
Context triple: [Colony of Vancouver Island, governor, Richard Blanshard]
  • A. Raymond Priestley
    Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
  • B. George Swinburne
    George Swinburne was an Australian engineer, politician, and education advocate whose contributions to technical and higher education led to institutions such as Swinburne Technical College bearing his name.
  • C. Geoffrey Burgon
    Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
  • D. Robert Hurrell Froude
    Robert Hurrell Froude was a 19th-century English Anglican priest and theologian associated with the Oxford Movement.
  • E. Arthur Lyttelton
    Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
  • 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: Richard Blanshard
Triple: [Colony of Vancouver Island, governor, Richard Blanshard]
Generated description
Richard Blanshard was a British colonial administrator who became the first governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island in the mid-19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Blanshard
Target entity description: Richard Blanshard was a British colonial administrator who became the first governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island in the mid-19th century.
  • A. Raymond Priestley
    Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
  • B. George Swinburne
    George Swinburne was an Australian engineer, politician, and education advocate whose contributions to technical and higher education led to institutions such as Swinburne Technical College bearing his name.
  • C. Geoffrey Burgon
    Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
  • D. Robert Hurrell Froude
    Robert Hurrell Froude was a 19th-century English Anglican priest and theologian associated with the Oxford Movement.
  • E. Arthur Lyttelton
    Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
  • 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_69c687eaa7508190bb58ce2aa02039b3 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6af11f0788190be010c6ee60e150c completed March 27, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e43860f081908fbf1ec65bdad940 completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e4e9c344819099ad11c21c2e4a6e completed March 27, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e581a4f88190b1f64033a49d1bae completed March 27, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:56 p.m.