Triple

T17727999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William John Lyne E442514 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Postmaster-General of New South Wales
The Postmaster-General of New South Wales was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing postal and telecommunication services in the Australian colony (and later state) of New South Wales.
E1283708 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: Postmaster-General of New South Wales | Statement: [William John Lyne, positionHeld, Postmaster-General of New South Wales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Postmaster-General of New South Wales
Context triple: [William John Lyne, positionHeld, Postmaster-General of New South Wales]
  • A. Postmaster-General of Australia
    The Postmaster-General of Australia was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing the nation’s postal and telecommunications services before these functions were corporatised and restructured.
  • B. Registrar-General of New South Wales
    The Registrar-General of New South Wales is the senior government official responsible for overseeing civil registration and land titles administration in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • C. Secretary for Lands of New South Wales
    The Secretary for Lands of New South Wales was a senior government ministerial role responsible for overseeing land administration, allocation, and related policies in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • D. Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
    The Colonial Secretary of New South Wales was a senior ministerial office in the colonial government responsible for internal administration and governance before the establishment of the modern premiership.
  • E. Chief Secretary of New South Wales
    The Chief Secretary of New South Wales was a senior ministerial position in the New South Wales government responsible for overseeing key administrative and internal affairs functions, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Postmaster-General of New South Wales
Triple: [William John Lyne, positionHeld, Postmaster-General of New South Wales]
Generated description
The Postmaster-General of New South Wales was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing postal and telecommunication services in the Australian colony (and later state) of New South Wales.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Postmaster-General of New South Wales
Target entity description: The Postmaster-General of New South Wales was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing postal and telecommunication services in the Australian colony (and later state) of New South Wales.
  • A. Postmaster-General of Australia
    The Postmaster-General of Australia was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing the nation’s postal and telecommunications services before these functions were corporatised and restructured.
  • B. Registrar-General of New South Wales
    The Registrar-General of New South Wales is the senior government official responsible for overseeing civil registration and land titles administration in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • C. Secretary for Lands of New South Wales
    The Secretary for Lands of New South Wales was a senior government ministerial role responsible for overseeing land administration, allocation, and related policies in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • D. Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
    The Colonial Secretary of New South Wales was a senior ministerial office in the colonial government responsible for internal administration and governance before the establishment of the modern premiership.
  • E. Chief Secretary of New South Wales
    The Chief Secretary of New South Wales was a senior ministerial position in the New South Wales government responsible for overseeing key administrative and internal affairs functions, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d8b9ec79688190b86bdcef85a7b3aa completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e478e3cb708190b47456ad2008a65e completed April 19, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a023034858881908c09acc78839e5d9 completed May 11, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0230f2f4c88190ab54ae494c63e223 completed May 11, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0231667fd481908663a447670a9a0e completed May 11, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:08 a.m.