Triple

T722265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division E14642 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Major-General Sidney Kirkman
Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
E89817 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: Major-General Sidney Kirkman | Statement: [British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, notableCommander, Major-General Sidney Kirkman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Sidney Kirkman
Context triple: [British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, notableCommander, Major-General Sidney Kirkman]
  • A. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • B. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
    Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
  • C. Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
    Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
  • D. Major-General Eric Down
    Major-General Eric Down was a senior British Army officer best known for leading the British 1st Airborne Division during the Second World War.
  • E. Major-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning
    Major-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning was a senior British Army officer often regarded as the "father of the British Airborne Forces" and a key architect of Allied airborne operations during the Second World War.
  • 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: Major-General Sidney Kirkman
Triple: [British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, notableCommander, Major-General Sidney Kirkman]
Generated description
Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Sidney Kirkman
Target entity description: Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • A. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • B. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
    Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
  • C. Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
    Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
  • D. Major-General Eric Down
    Major-General Eric Down was a senior British Army officer best known for leading the British 1st Airborne Division during the Second World War.
  • E. Major-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning
    Major-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning was a senior British Army officer often regarded as the "father of the British Airborne Forces" and a key architect of Allied airborne operations during the Second World War.
  • 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_69a4934c753c81909b309027e48b9b3a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a591124c8190842e7ef18b064198 completed March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a65e3c22f08190b71734d9605a92f6 completed March 3, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a65f0b2aa881909241216280abc51d completed March 3, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a65faac11c8190bb2e015fc829e8da completed March 3, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.