Triple

T825834
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board E17850 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was a 17th-century English naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing the Royal Navy’s administrative and logistical affairs.
E96649 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: Thomas Middleton | Statement: [Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, positionHeldBy, Thomas Middleton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Middleton
Context triple: [Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, positionHeldBy, Thomas Middleton]
  • A. Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • B. Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson was a prominent English Renaissance dramatist and poet, best known for his satirical plays such as "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" and for helping shape early modern English theatre.
  • C. James Shirley
    James Shirley was a prominent English dramatist of the early 17th century, best known for his Caroline-era plays written just before the closing of the theatres in 1642.
  • D. Hugh Marlowe
    Hugh Marlowe was an American film, television, and stage actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century movies and popular TV series.
  • E. William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and world literature.
  • 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: Thomas Middleton
Triple: [Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, positionHeldBy, Thomas Middleton]
Generated description
Thomas Middleton was a 17th-century English naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing the Royal Navy’s administrative and logistical affairs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Middleton
Target entity description: Thomas Middleton was a 17th-century English naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing the Royal Navy’s administrative and logistical affairs.
  • A. Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
  • B. Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson was a prominent English Renaissance dramatist and poet, best known for his satirical plays such as "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" and for helping shape early modern English theatre.
  • C. James Shirley
    James Shirley was a prominent English dramatist of the early 17th century, best known for his Caroline-era plays written just before the closing of the theatres in 1642.
  • D. Hugh Marlowe
    Hugh Marlowe was an American film, television, and stage actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century movies and popular TV series.
  • E. William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and world literature.
  • 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_69a4937c9c188190aaa216f6b466f452 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab976094819086d676404d745750 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d9577f081908aa31b1926e04bb8 completed March 3, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78204c1208190b2d2d19cdea93b57 completed March 4, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78648601881908bfcb9390ac4d6d2 completed March 4, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.