Triple

T9400652
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro E226458 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Erskine
William Erskine was a British Army officer and cavalry commander during the Napoleonic Wars, noted for his controversial leadership in the Peninsular campaign.
 E799552 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 Erskine | Statement: [Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, commander, William Erskine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Erskine
Context triple: [Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, commander, William Erskine]
  • A. William Erskine
    William Erskine was a British Army officer and general during the American Revolutionary War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements.
  • B. Thomas Erskine
    Thomas Erskine was a prominent British lawyer and Whig politician renowned for his eloquent advocacy of civil liberties and landmark defenses of free speech in late 18th-century England.
  • C. William Balfour
    William Balfour is an American man best known for being convicted of the 2008 murders of three relatives of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.
  • D. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • E. John Erskine
    John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
  • 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 Erskine
Triple: [Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, commander, William Erskine]
Generated description
William Erskine was a British Army officer and cavalry commander during the Napoleonic Wars, noted for his controversial leadership in the Peninsular campaign.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Erskine
Target entity description: William Erskine was a British Army officer and cavalry commander during the Napoleonic Wars, noted for his controversial leadership in the Peninsular campaign.
  • A. William Erskine
    William Erskine was a British Army officer and general during the American Revolutionary War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements.
  • B. Thomas Erskine
    Thomas Erskine was a prominent British lawyer and Whig politician renowned for his eloquent advocacy of civil liberties and landmark defenses of free speech in late 18th-century England.
  • C. William Balfour
    William Balfour is an American man best known for being convicted of the 2008 murders of three relatives of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.
  • D. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • E. John Erskine
    John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69ca843170f88190800a8ab2b5fc568e completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd5156b9588190bafb6b1c3ee3c0ed completed April 1, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d110214f088190a972c8534b613873 completed April 4, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d111c92e608190868d4d194005d3e9 completed April 4, 2026, 1:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d112634fb48190b4c7e9d997d27928 completed April 4, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:46 p.m.