Triple
T17607897
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Surveyor General of India |
E428882
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHeldBy |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Lt. Col. William Lambton
Lt. Col. William Lambton was a British Army officer and pioneering surveyor best known for initiating and leading the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
|
E1279418
|
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: Lt. Col. William Lambton | Statement: [Surveyor General of India, officeHeldBy, Lt. Col. William Lambton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Col. William Lambton Context triple: [Surveyor General of India, officeHeldBy, Lt. Col. William Lambton]
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A.
Lieutenant-General William Ramsden
Lieutenant-General William Ramsden was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command roles during the Second World War.
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B.
Colonel T. M. Backhouse
Colonel T. M. Backhouse was a British Army legal officer who served as a leading prosecutor in the post–World War II war crimes trials, notably those concerning atrocities committed at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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C.
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
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D.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell was a British Army officer renowned for his crucial role in defending the farmhouse of Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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E.
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic and War of 1812 era, noted for his leadership of light infantry and service in several key campaigns in Europe and North America.
- 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: Lt. Col. William Lambton Triple: [Surveyor General of India, officeHeldBy, Lt. Col. William Lambton]
Generated description
Lt. Col. William Lambton was a British Army officer and pioneering surveyor best known for initiating and leading the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Col. William Lambton Target entity description: Lt. Col. William Lambton was a British Army officer and pioneering surveyor best known for initiating and leading the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
-
A.
Lieutenant-General William Ramsden
Lieutenant-General William Ramsden was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command roles during the Second World War.
-
B.
Colonel T. M. Backhouse
Colonel T. M. Backhouse was a British Army legal officer who served as a leading prosecutor in the post–World War II war crimes trials, notably those concerning atrocities committed at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
-
C.
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
-
D.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell was a British Army officer renowned for his crucial role in defending the farmhouse of Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
-
E.
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic and War of 1812 era, noted for his leadership of light infantry and service in several key campaigns in Europe and North America.
- 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_69d889e1c6148190ba76241e74688f8b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e46c4d8374819097cb112fba405e77 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:46 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a020a90f17081908e7df5b2b86888ec |
completed | May 11, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a020c016bec8190b31541768fbda897 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 5:04 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a020ce0cc0081909e9e90b9067e3f01 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 5:07 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:51 a.m.