Triple

T874531
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Durban E18886 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Benjamin d’Urban
Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
E131810 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: Benjamin d’Urban | Statement: [Durban, namedAfter, Benjamin d’Urban]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin d’Urban
Context triple: [Durban, namedAfter, Benjamin d’Urban]
  • A. Edward Leister
    Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • B. Henry Havelock
    Henry Havelock was a British general noted for his leadership during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, particularly in the relief of Lucknow.
  • C. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • D. George Denison
    George Denison was a notable individual after whom the city of Denison, Texas, was named, likely recognized for his influence or contributions significant to the area's history or development.
  • E. Raymond Collishaw
    Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
  • 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: Benjamin d’Urban
Triple: [Durban, namedAfter, Benjamin d’Urban]
Generated description
Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin d’Urban
Target entity description: Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
  • A. Edward Leister
    Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • B. Henry Havelock
    Henry Havelock was a British general noted for his leadership during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, particularly in the relief of Lucknow.
  • C. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • D. George Denison
    George Denison was a notable individual after whom the city of Denison, Texas, was named, likely recognized for his influence or contributions significant to the area's history or development.
  • E. Raymond Collishaw
    Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
  • 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_69a4938db1f081909bcd1ad2713b6096 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac992d8c819088800f5a713fa7a4 completed March 1, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5e990be881908b47d88074339470 completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f3b0ee8819094ba1bdbaac8c43d completed March 7, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fa6a43881908b0ac30c4e376c5b completed March 7, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.