Triple

T8930871
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colvin R. de Silva E212649 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka
Colvin R. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan Marxist politician, constitutional lawyer, and key leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party who played a major role in the country’s leftist and independence-era politics.
 E766262 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: Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka | Statement: [Colvin R. de Silva, positionHeld, Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka
Context triple: [Colvin R. de Silva, positionHeld, Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka]
  • A. Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon)
    Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon) was the parliamentary post held by the chief spokesperson and head of the largest non-governing political party in Ceylon’s legislature.
  • B. Member of Parliament of New Zealand
    Geoffrey Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, academic, and former politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister and played a major role in constitutional and legal reform.
  • C. Prime Minister of Ceylon
    The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
  • D. President of Sri Lanka
    The President of Sri Lanka is the country’s executive head of state and government, serving as the chief authority in its republican political system.
  • E. Government of Sri Lanka
    The Government of Sri Lanka is the central governing authority of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, responsible for national administration, policymaking, and the implementation of laws across the country.
  • 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: Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka
Triple: [Colvin R. de Silva, positionHeld, Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka]
Generated description
Colvin R. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan Marxist politician, constitutional lawyer, and key leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party who played a major role in the country’s leftist and independence-era politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka
Target entity description: Colvin R. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan Marxist politician, constitutional lawyer, and key leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party who played a major role in the country’s leftist and independence-era politics.
  • A. Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon)
    Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon) was the parliamentary post held by the chief spokesperson and head of the largest non-governing political party in Ceylon’s legislature.
  • B. Member of Parliament of New Zealand
    Geoffrey Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, academic, and former politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister and played a major role in constitutional and legal reform.
  • C. Prime Minister of Ceylon
    The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
  • D. President of Sri Lanka
    The President of Sri Lanka is the country’s executive head of state and government, serving as the chief authority in its republican political system.
  • E. Government of Sri Lanka
    The Government of Sri Lanka is the central governing authority of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, responsible for national administration, policymaking, and the implementation of laws across the country.
  • 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_69ca8395c438819087d7cb844ab5990c completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc668cdc0c8190b908fd23cbdef534 completed April 1, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba63544081909394500f28b34ccb completed April 3, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbc685bf08190a716a28cc9bcd031 completed April 3, 2026, 1:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbcc19ee081909e564040fea2ad9a completed April 3, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:57 p.m.