Triple

T15205961
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs E363388 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object British colonial service
The British colonial service was the administrative apparatus through which Britain governed its overseas colonies, staffed by civil servants who implemented imperial policies across the empire.
E1143931 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: British colonial service | Statement: [Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs, associatedWith, British colonial service]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial service
Context triple: [Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs, associatedWith, British colonial service]
  • A. British Indian Department
    The British Indian Department was a colonial-era British agency responsible for managing relations and alliances with Indigenous nations in North America, particularly in the Great Lakes and frontier regions.
  • B. British colonial intelligence
    British colonial intelligence was the network of intelligence and security services operated by the British Empire to monitor, control, and suppress political dissent and anti-colonial movements in its overseas territories.
  • C. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • D. Malayan Civil Service
    The Malayan Civil Service was the British colonial administrative service responsible for governing British Malaya and managing its civil affairs.
  • E. Indian Civil Service
    The Indian Civil Service was the elite administrative bureaucracy of British rule in India, responsible for governing and managing the colonial state's key functions.
  • 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: British colonial service
Triple: [Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs, associatedWith, British colonial service]
Generated description
The British colonial service was the administrative apparatus through which Britain governed its overseas colonies, staffed by civil servants who implemented imperial policies across the empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial service
Target entity description: The British colonial service was the administrative apparatus through which Britain governed its overseas colonies, staffed by civil servants who implemented imperial policies across the empire.
  • A. British Indian Department
    The British Indian Department was a colonial-era British agency responsible for managing relations and alliances with Indigenous nations in North America, particularly in the Great Lakes and frontier regions.
  • B. British colonial intelligence
    British colonial intelligence was the network of intelligence and security services operated by the British Empire to monitor, control, and suppress political dissent and anti-colonial movements in its overseas territories.
  • C. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • D. Malayan Civil Service
    The Malayan Civil Service was the British colonial administrative service responsible for governing British Malaya and managing its civil affairs.
  • E. Indian Civil Service
    The Indian Civil Service was the elite administrative bureaucracy of British rule in India, responsible for governing and managing the colonial state's key functions.
  • 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_69d85a0b78bc8190b6e5ad51a2c4cfc5 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e006b7964c8190bc8dc3444b94f15e completed April 15, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fed33b911c8190815341a342a8d3c8 completed May 9, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fed744f8b48190948d42a8da9d2e70 completed May 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fed7d9934c8190bd2d00830e5d33bb completed May 9, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:11 a.m.