Triple

T6917799
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Staunton, Virginia E160107 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Sir George Staunton
Sir George Staunton was a British diplomat and sinologist best known for his role in the Macartney Embassy to China in the late 18th century and for helping introduce Chinese language and culture to the English-speaking world.
E629713 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 Staunton | Statement: [Staunton, Virginia, namedAfter, Sir George Staunton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir George Staunton
Context triple: [Staunton, Virginia, namedAfter, Sir George Staunton]
  • A. Sir Arthur Lee
    Sir Arthur Lee was a British Conservative politician and philanthropist best known for gifting the Chequers estate to the nation as the official country residence of the UK Prime Minister.
  • B. Sir Thomas Brisbane
    Sir Thomas Brisbane was a 19th-century Scottish soldier, colonial governor of New South Wales, and noted astronomer after whom the Australian city of Brisbane is named.
  • C. Lord Ashburton
    Lord Ashburton was a British diplomat and politician best known for negotiating the 1842 Webster–Ashburton Treaty that peacefully settled the U.S.–Canadian border dispute linked to the Aroostook War.
  • D. John Jervis
    John Jervis was a prominent 18th-century British admiral who became Earl of St Vincent and was renowned for his decisive naval victories during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • E. James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
    James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, was a 19th-century British statesman and colonial administrator best known for serving as Governor General of the Province of Canada and later as Viceroy of India, as well as for his controversial role in the Second Opium War and the destruction of Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
  • 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 Staunton
Triple: [Staunton, Virginia, namedAfter, Sir George Staunton]
Generated description
Sir George Staunton was a British diplomat and sinologist best known for his role in the Macartney Embassy to China in the late 18th century and for helping introduce Chinese language and culture to the English-speaking world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir George Staunton
Target entity description: Sir George Staunton was a British diplomat and sinologist best known for his role in the Macartney Embassy to China in the late 18th century and for helping introduce Chinese language and culture to the English-speaking world.
  • A. Sir Arthur Lee
    Sir Arthur Lee was a British Conservative politician and philanthropist best known for gifting the Chequers estate to the nation as the official country residence of the UK Prime Minister.
  • B. Sir Thomas Brisbane
    Sir Thomas Brisbane was a 19th-century Scottish soldier, colonial governor of New South Wales, and noted astronomer after whom the Australian city of Brisbane is named.
  • C. Lord Ashburton
    Lord Ashburton was a British diplomat and politician best known for negotiating the 1842 Webster–Ashburton Treaty that peacefully settled the U.S.–Canadian border dispute linked to the Aroostook War.
  • D. John Jervis
    John Jervis was a prominent 18th-century British admiral who became Earl of St Vincent and was renowned for his decisive naval victories during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • E. James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
    James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, was a 19th-century British statesman and colonial administrator best known for serving as Governor General of the Province of Canada and later as Viceroy of India, as well as for his controversial role in the Second Opium War and the destruction of Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
  • 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_69c6883ab1008190a07129ff06f625d9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9e17ea08190b8c4142af8adfba0 completed March 27, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7512b39b081908370c43ed3d65829 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7523737e48190b2ad3e7bea02878d completed March 28, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c752eb3e1c8190bad35727e573c41f completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:26 p.m.