Triple

T856309
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Halifax E18498 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Edward Cornwallis
Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
E104472 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: Edward Cornwallis | Statement: [Halifax, founder, Edward Cornwallis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Cornwallis
Context triple: [Halifax, founder, Edward Cornwallis]
  • A. William Shirley
    William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
  • B. Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
    Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was an 18th-century French general best known for commanding French forces in North America during the French and Indian War, where he led key battles such as the defense of Quebec.
  • C. Joseph Dudley
    Joseph Dudley was a colonial American administrator best known for serving as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • D. Jean-Baptiste Deshays
    Jean-Baptiste Deshays was an 18th-century French painter known for his religious and historical works and as a prominent figure in the Rococo movement.
  • E. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • 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: Edward Cornwallis
Triple: [Halifax, founder, Edward Cornwallis]
Generated description
Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Cornwallis
Target entity description: Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
  • A. William Shirley
    William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
  • B. Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
    Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was an 18th-century French general best known for commanding French forces in North America during the French and Indian War, where he led key battles such as the defense of Quebec.
  • C. Joseph Dudley
    Joseph Dudley was a colonial American administrator best known for serving as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • D. Jean-Baptiste Deshays
    Jean-Baptiste Deshays was an 18th-century French painter known for his religious and historical works and as a prominent figure in the Rococo movement.
  • E. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • 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_69a4938bdd3c8190a954a3c11844d9cf completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac3c172481908ed164ee1579ec28 completed March 1, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b8494840819091324bf603ff8d7c completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7bc1acf708190aa86cd5eca101966 completed March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7bc96dd2881909310147292b99023 completed March 4, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.