Triple

T18169960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Bowring E434997 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object British Consul at Canton
The British Consul at Canton was the chief diplomatic and commercial representative of the United Kingdom in the Chinese port city of Canton (Guangzhou) during the 19th century, overseeing British interests and relations there.
E1310054 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 Consul at Canton | Statement: [John Bowring, positionHeld, British Consul at Canton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Consul at Canton
Context triple: [John Bowring, positionHeld, British Consul at Canton]
  • A. High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East
    The High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East was a senior British diplomatic post empowered to negotiate and enforce imperial policy and treaties across East Asia in the mid-19th century.
  • B. United States Consul in Liverpool
    The United States Consul in Liverpool was a key 19th-century diplomatic and commercial post representing American interests in the major British port city of Liverpool.
  • C. Robert Hart
    Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. British Commissioner
    The British Commissioner was the chief colonial official responsible for administering the leased territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the United Kingdom.
  • E. British consul Henry Salt
    British consul Henry Salt was an English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist best known for his role in acquiring major collections of Egyptian antiquities for the British Museum in the early 19th century.
  • 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 Consul at Canton
Triple: [John Bowring, positionHeld, British Consul at Canton]
Generated description
The British Consul at Canton was the chief diplomatic and commercial representative of the United Kingdom in the Chinese port city of Canton (Guangzhou) during the 19th century, overseeing British interests and relations there.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Consul at Canton
Target entity description: The British Consul at Canton was the chief diplomatic and commercial representative of the United Kingdom in the Chinese port city of Canton (Guangzhou) during the 19th century, overseeing British interests and relations there.
  • A. High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East
    The High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East was a senior British diplomatic post empowered to negotiate and enforce imperial policy and treaties across East Asia in the mid-19th century.
  • B. United States Consul in Liverpool
    The United States Consul in Liverpool was a key 19th-century diplomatic and commercial post representing American interests in the major British port city of Liverpool.
  • C. Robert Hart
    Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. British Commissioner
    The British Commissioner was the chief colonial official responsible for administering the leased territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the United Kingdom.
  • E. British consul Henry Salt
    British consul Henry Salt was an English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist best known for his role in acquiring major collections of Egyptian antiquities for the British Museum in the early 19th century.
  • 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_69d8b90b7a188190b3fc7b8d4a6cd20a completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4df555af081908a2f12bce6a13f56 completed April 19, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a038fc6c5008190a5ade67801d6df75 completed May 12, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03914c5f6081908963548dc01a524a completed May 12, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03925c322081909d435251e869194d completed May 12, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.