Triple

T8131959
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere E189871 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet, was an 18th-century British baronet and landowner of the prominent Cotton family, whose son Stapleton Cotton became the 1st Viscount Combermere and a distinguished military commander.
 E713995 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 Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet | Statement: [Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, father, Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet
Context triple: [Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, father, Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet]
  • A. Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham
    Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, was a 19th-century British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
  • B. Robert Spencer, 4th Earl of Sunderland
    Robert Spencer, 4th Earl of Sunderland, was an 18th-century British Whig politician and statesman who served as Lord Chamberlain and played a significant role in the early Georgian court.
  • C. James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury
    James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat who was elevated to the peerage as Marquess of Salisbury in the late 18th century.
  • D. Thomas Savile
    Thomas Savile was a member of the English Savile family, likely a contemporary relative of the scholar and diplomat Henry Savile.
  • E. Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
    Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, was an influential English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and later as Lord Chancellor under Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
  • 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 Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet
Triple: [Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, father, Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet]
Generated description
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet, was an 18th-century British baronet and landowner of the prominent Cotton family, whose son Stapleton Cotton became the 1st Viscount Combermere and a distinguished military commander.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet
Target entity description: Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet, was an 18th-century British baronet and landowner of the prominent Cotton family, whose son Stapleton Cotton became the 1st Viscount Combermere and a distinguished military commander.
  • A. Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham
    Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, was a 19th-century British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
  • B. Robert Spencer, 4th Earl of Sunderland
    Robert Spencer, 4th Earl of Sunderland, was an 18th-century British Whig politician and statesman who served as Lord Chamberlain and played a significant role in the early Georgian court.
  • C. James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury
    James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat who was elevated to the peerage as Marquess of Salisbury in the late 18th century.
  • D. Thomas Savile
    Thomas Savile was a member of the English Savile family, likely a contemporary relative of the scholar and diplomat Henry Savile.
  • E. Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
    Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, was an influential English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and later as Lord Chancellor under Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
  • 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_69ca82bcb4848190a9a9d036ad768642 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb43b96cd481908c0679050c35d83f completed March 31, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc9482113881909439c9e43fbc933f completed April 1, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc95c0b19881908521cce5ac0fe197 completed April 1, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc970698f88190a0869515904e50e3 completed April 1, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:34 p.m.