Triple

T697568
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cairns E13925 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Wellington Cairns
William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
E202580 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 Wellington Cairns | Statement: [Cairns, namedAfter, William Wellington Cairns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wellington Cairns
Context triple: [Cairns, namedAfter, William Wellington Cairns]
  • A. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Charles Henry Marshall
    Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
  • D. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • E. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • 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 Wellington Cairns
Triple: [Cairns, namedAfter, William Wellington Cairns]
Generated description
William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wellington Cairns
Target entity description: William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • A. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Charles Henry Marshall
    Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
  • D. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • E. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • 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_69a493406c408190957eeec9048a8fb6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a0c99be48190babc37c397b6a186 completed March 1, 2026, 8:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5a4db2c8190830f3b2a707a3d32 completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb9b262048190a4382a86f1c8f192 completed March 8, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adba2484b48190a712f29f87f9e45e completed March 8, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.