Triple

T17582807
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Briars, Saint Helena E428245 entity
Predicate ownerDuringNapoleonStay P128093 FINISHED
Object William Balcombe
William Balcombe was a British official and merchant on Saint Helena best known for hosting Napoleon Bonaparte at his residence, The Briars, during the emperor’s exile.
E1313335 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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 Balcombe | Statement: [The Briars, Saint Helena, ownerDuringNapoleonStay, William Balcombe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Balcombe
Context triple: [The Briars, Saint Helena, ownerDuringNapoleonStay, William Balcombe]
  • A. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • B. George Hopley
    George Hopley is the pseudonym used by American noir and suspense writer Cornell Woolrich for some of his crime and mystery novels.
  • C. Joe Royall
    Joe Royall is an individual recognized as a notable bearer of the surname Royall.
  • D. William Colbeck
    William Colbeck was a British Antarctic explorer and seaman known for commanding relief expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.
  • E. Charles Bebb
    Charles Bebb was a prominent early 20th-century American architect based in Seattle, known for helping shape the city's skyline through major commercial and landmark buildings.
  • 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 Balcombe
Triple: [The Briars, Saint Helena, ownerDuringNapoleonStay, William Balcombe]
Generated description
William Balcombe was a British official and merchant on Saint Helena best known for hosting Napoleon Bonaparte at his residence, The Briars, during the emperor’s exile.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Balcombe
Target entity description: William Balcombe was a British official and merchant on Saint Helena best known for hosting Napoleon Bonaparte at his residence, The Briars, during the emperor’s exile.
  • A. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • B. George Hopley
    George Hopley is the pseudonym used by American noir and suspense writer Cornell Woolrich for some of his crime and mystery novels.
  • C. Joe Royall
    Joe Royall is an individual recognized as a notable bearer of the surname Royall.
  • D. William Colbeck
    William Colbeck was a British Antarctic explorer and seaman known for commanding relief expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.
  • E. Charles Bebb
    Charles Bebb was a prominent early 20th-century American architect based in Seattle, known for helping shape the city's skyline through major commercial and landmark buildings.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: ownerDuringNapoleonStay
Context triple: [The Briars, Saint Helena, ownerDuringNapoleonStay, William Balcombe]
  • A. ownerDuringRevolution
    Indicates that one entity was the owner of another entity specifically during a defined revolutionary period.
  • B. tookNapoleonTo
    Indicates that one entity transported or escorted Napoleon to another specified location or entity.
  • C. securityStatusDuringNapoleonExile
    Indicates the security conditions or measures in place during the period of Napoleon’s exile.
  • D. NapoleonTitleWhileThere
    Indicates that a specified title or rank was held by Napoleon during his presence at a particular place or in a particular context.
  • E. powerStatusDuringFrenchProtectorate
    Indicates the status or condition of political power that an entity held during the period of the French Protectorate.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69d889e1030481909950e140c63255b9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e463cf556881908d2935b3761f65df completed April 19, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039ef7b86c81909646d43496223dac completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03a33cd93c81908ce8b3b61d5d99a8 completed May 12, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a9c4f32881909a7818097735b105 completed May 12, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e3b4fff0348190b899a32da537eaca completed April 18, 2026, 4:44 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69e3bbb50b448190a59dd4be33c76db7 completed April 18, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:50 a.m.