Triple

T8992120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of El Obeid E214814 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Hicks
William Hicks was a British Army officer best known for leading an ill-fated Egyptian army expedition that was annihilated by Mahdist forces at the Battle of El Obeid in 1883.
E778950 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: William Hicks | Statement: [Battle of El Obeid, commander, William Hicks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hicks
Context triple: [Battle of El Obeid, commander, William Hicks]
  • A. Melvin Hicks
    Melvin Hicks is the employee whose discrimination claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, which clarified the burden-shifting framework in employment discrimination law.
  • B. Lyndon Dykes
    Lyndon Dykes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker, known for representing the Scotland national team and clubs in the English Football League.
  • C. Jervis McEntee
    Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
  • D. John Potts
    John Potts was an 18th-century ironmaster and founder of the town that became Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
  • E. John Fagan
    John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
  • 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: William Hicks
Triple: [Battle of El Obeid, commander, William Hicks]
Generated description
William Hicks was a British Army officer best known for leading an ill-fated Egyptian army expedition that was annihilated by Mahdist forces at the Battle of El Obeid in 1883.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hicks
Target entity description: William Hicks was a British Army officer best known for leading an ill-fated Egyptian army expedition that was annihilated by Mahdist forces at the Battle of El Obeid in 1883.
  • A. Melvin Hicks
    Melvin Hicks is the employee whose discrimination claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, which clarified the burden-shifting framework in employment discrimination law.
  • B. Lyndon Dykes
    Lyndon Dykes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker, known for representing the Scotland national team and clubs in the English Football League.
  • C. Jervis McEntee
    Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
  • D. John Potts
    John Potts was an 18th-century ironmaster and founder of the town that became Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
  • E. John Fagan
    John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
  • 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_69ca83a05c608190bdfdbdb25e994b39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc68753590819094fd70ed35d8cedf completed April 1, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d02fb3a27081909bc8504c92d8942f completed April 3, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0316f47c88190920843b469d15069 completed April 3, 2026, 9:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d032778adc8190a087497507a6e1ca completed April 3, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:04 p.m.