Triple

T8398385
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Resident in Perak E198109 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object James W. W. Birch
James W. W. Birch was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known as the first British Resident of Perak, whose assassination in 1875 sparked the Perak War and marked a key moment in Malaysian colonial history.
 E743481 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: James W. W. Birch | Statement: [British Resident in Perak, officeHolder, James W. W. Birch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James W. W. Birch
Context triple: [British Resident in Perak, officeHolder, James W. W. Birch]
  • A. Charles Green Bingham
    Charles Green Bingham was a notable British philhellene known for his support of the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
  • B. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • C. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • D. William H. Gill
    William H. Gill was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 32nd Infantry Division during World War II, leading it in significant Pacific Theater operations.
  • E. William M. Brown
    William M. Brown was an individual notable enough to be specifically commemorated with a marked grave in Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
  • 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: James W. W. Birch
Triple: [British Resident in Perak, officeHolder, James W. W. Birch]
Generated description
James W. W. Birch was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known as the first British Resident of Perak, whose assassination in 1875 sparked the Perak War and marked a key moment in Malaysian colonial history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James W. W. Birch
Target entity description: James W. W. Birch was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known as the first British Resident of Perak, whose assassination in 1875 sparked the Perak War and marked a key moment in Malaysian colonial history.
  • A. Charles Green Bingham
    Charles Green Bingham was a notable British philhellene known for his support of the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
  • B. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • C. James W. Forsyth
    James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • D. William H. Gill
    William H. Gill was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 32nd Infantry Division during World War II, leading it in significant Pacific Theater operations.
  • E. William M. Brown
    William M. Brown was an individual notable enough to be specifically commemorated with a marked grave in Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
  • 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_69ca82f816bc8190ab321c07d72208c1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb818a8dc081908efd5d7f910322e7 completed March 31, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce889d38508190977b112db0253606 completed April 2, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8c9727208190adf14e7d2ba7af17 completed April 2, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8d595d80819093a1b849bcb3c7c7 completed April 2, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:04 p.m.