Triple
T8512623
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British 5th Division |
E201493
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCommander |
P1197
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien |
E226497
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Horace Smith-Dorrien | Statement: [British 5th Division, notableCommander, Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien Context triple: [British 5th Division, notableCommander, Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien]
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A.
Sir Hugh Gough
Sir Hugh Gough was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for commanding British forces in major 19th-century colonial campaigns, including the Anglo-Sikh Wars in India.
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B.
Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey
Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his corps-level command roles in major campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
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C.
Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman
Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command in key campaigns of the Second World War, particularly in North Africa and Italy.
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D.
Horace Smith-Dorrien
chosen
Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
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E.
William Cadogan
William Cadogan was a prominent Anglo-Irish soldier and Whig politician who rose to high command under the Duke of Marlborough and later played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca8320e5748190ac2c585a0bba8193 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cbe60b0d4c8190812ddbc1c17389c8 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ce4e4e64f481908ddf99570fe59332 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 11:09 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:15 p.m.