Triple

T12947059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Atbara E309796 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Gatacre
William Gatacre was a British Army general noted for his service in late 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in the Sudan and the Second Boer War.
E1012068 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 Gatacre | Statement: [Battle of Atbara, commander, William Gatacre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gatacre
Context triple: [Battle of Atbara, commander, William Gatacre]
  • A. John Aislabie
    John Aislabie was an early 18th-century British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer whose career was ruined by his central role in the financial scandal surrounding the South Sea Company.
  • B. Nicholas Bacon
    Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
  • C. William Dugdale
    William Dugdale was a 17th-century English antiquary and herald best known for his extensive historical and genealogical works on England’s counties and nobility.
  • D. Humphrey Wanley
    Humphrey Wanley was an English palaeographer, librarian, and antiquary renowned for his pioneering catalogues of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and his influential role in early 18th-century antiquarian scholarship.
  • E. Edmund Woolley
    Edmund Woolley was an 18th-century master builder and architect best known for designing and constructing the Pennsylvania State House, later known as Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.
  • 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 Gatacre
Triple: [Battle of Atbara, commander, William Gatacre]
Generated description
William Gatacre was a British Army general noted for his service in late 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in the Sudan and the Second Boer War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gatacre
Target entity description: William Gatacre was a British Army general noted for his service in late 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in the Sudan and the Second Boer War.
  • A. John Aislabie
    John Aislabie was an early 18th-century British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer whose career was ruined by his central role in the financial scandal surrounding the South Sea Company.
  • B. Nicholas Bacon
    Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
  • C. William Dugdale
    William Dugdale was a 17th-century English antiquary and herald best known for his extensive historical and genealogical works on England’s counties and nobility.
  • D. Humphrey Wanley
    Humphrey Wanley was an English palaeographer, librarian, and antiquary renowned for his pioneering catalogues of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and his influential role in early 18th-century antiquarian scholarship.
  • E. Edmund Woolley
    Edmund Woolley was an 18th-century master builder and architect best known for designing and constructing the Pennsylvania State House, later known as Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.
  • 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e1c67b8819094e5243267f93ce2 completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af75bc04819098d98c47fca48ac9 completed May 3, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b02e3b9881909387c1f70176a1bd completed May 3, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b121fdb881909a9a321794a3b8f1 completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:43 p.m.