Triple

T8972597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Conor Cruise O'Brien E214302 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland
The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland was a former Irish government cabinet position responsible for overseeing postal services, telecommunications, and broadcasting before these functions were transferred to other departments and state bodies.
E770288 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: Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland | Statement: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, positionHeld, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland
Context triple: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, positionHeld, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland]
  • A. Chief Secretary for Ireland
    The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a senior British government ministerial post responsible for administering Irish affairs and acting as the main executive authority in Ireland under the Lord Lieutenant during the period of British rule.
  • B. Vice-Treasurer of Ireland
    The Vice-Treasurer of Ireland was a senior financial and administrative office in the pre-Union Irish government, responsible for managing and overseeing the kingdom’s revenues and expenditures on behalf of the British Crown.
  • C. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland
    The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland was a senior Crown official who oversaw the Irish Chancery and exercised high judicial and political authority in the Kingdom of Ireland.
  • D. Attorney General of the Irish Free State
    The Attorney General of the Irish Free State was the chief legal adviser to the government and its primary law officer during the existence of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937.
  • E. Governor-General of the Irish Free State
    The Governor-General of the Irish Free State was the British monarch’s representative and de facto head of state in the Irish Free State from its establishment in 1922 until the office was abolished in 1936.
  • 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: Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland
Triple: [Conor Cruise O'Brien, positionHeld, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland]
Generated description
The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland was a former Irish government cabinet position responsible for overseeing postal services, telecommunications, and broadcasting before these functions were transferred to other departments and state bodies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland
Target entity description: The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs of Ireland was a former Irish government cabinet position responsible for overseeing postal services, telecommunications, and broadcasting before these functions were transferred to other departments and state bodies.
  • A. Chief Secretary for Ireland
    The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a senior British government ministerial post responsible for administering Irish affairs and acting as the main executive authority in Ireland under the Lord Lieutenant during the period of British rule.
  • B. Vice-Treasurer of Ireland
    The Vice-Treasurer of Ireland was a senior financial and administrative office in the pre-Union Irish government, responsible for managing and overseeing the kingdom’s revenues and expenditures on behalf of the British Crown.
  • C. Minister for Transport of Ireland
    The Minister for Transport of Ireland is the government cabinet member responsible for national transport policy, including roads, public transport, aviation, and maritime affairs.
  • D. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland
    The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland was a senior Crown official who oversaw the Irish Chancery and exercised high judicial and political authority in the Kingdom of Ireland.
  • E. Attorney General of the Irish Free State
    The Attorney General of the Irish Free State was the chief legal adviser to the government and its primary law officer during the existence of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937.
  • 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_69ca839dbf608190a2f5990477115d29 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc678242908190a32a73423319ebb3 completed April 1, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc9632afc8190a4dc14d33e8757ee completed April 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfcb178d488190ab8ea897f964c10a completed April 3, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfcc1bb3248190ac94ed37be2dcde4 completed April 3, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:02 p.m.