Triple

T8216371
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Arthur Porritt E191940 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Sir Bernard Fergusson
Sir Bernard Fergusson was a British Army officer, military historian, and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the 1960s.
E726853 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 Bernard Fergusson | Statement: [Sir Arthur Porritt, precededBy, Sir Bernard Fergusson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Bernard Fergusson
Context triple: [Sir Arthur Porritt, precededBy, Sir Bernard Fergusson]
  • A. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir Edmund Hirst
    Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • C. Sir John Hoddinott
    Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
  • D. Harold Knox-Shaw
    Harold Knox-Shaw was a British astronomer known for his influential academic work and leadership in observational astronomy during the early 20th century.
  • E. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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 Bernard Fergusson
Triple: [Sir Arthur Porritt, precededBy, Sir Bernard Fergusson]
Generated description
Sir Bernard Fergusson was a British Army officer, military historian, and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Bernard Fergusson
Target entity description: Sir Bernard Fergusson was a British Army officer, military historian, and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the 1960s.
  • A. Sir Ernest Bullock
    Sir Ernest Bullock was a prominent British organist, composer, and choral director who served in leading positions at major UK musical institutions in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir Edmund Hirst
    Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • C. Sir John Hoddinott
    Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
  • D. Harold Knox-Shaw
    Harold Knox-Shaw was a British astronomer known for his influential academic work and leadership in observational astronomy during the early 20th century.
  • E. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown
    Sir Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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_69ca82c8c054819087fedd9a5436b8a3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb776dcfa08190969863b886336c91 completed March 31, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd94d541f08190adf1fe7020b3c39b completed April 1, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdb20cc18081908269516e49ce0fd3 completed April 2, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb44ff9a88190bbcb4a56f9b44dc1 completed April 2, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:44 p.m.