Triple

T18716352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British occupation of Newport (1776) E457649 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Francis Cornwallis
Francis Cornwallis was a British military officer who commanded forces during the 1776 occupation of Newport in the American Revolutionary War.
E1338415 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: Francis Cornwallis | Statement: [British occupation of Newport (1776), commander, Francis Cornwallis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Cornwallis
Context triple: [British occupation of Newport (1776), commander, Francis Cornwallis]
  • A. Frederick Cornwallis
    Frederick Cornwallis was an 18th-century English clergyman who became Archbishop of Canterbury and a prominent religious figure in the Church of England.
  • B. Charles Thornton Townshend
    Charles Thornton Townshend was a British gentleman of the 19th century best known as the father of Major-General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, a prominent officer in the British Army.
  • C. Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
    Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman who served as a senior British colonial administrator and played a significant role in the policies leading up to the American Revolution.
  • D. John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne
    John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne, was an 18th-century Irish-born British peer and politician who established the Shelburne title later held by his more famous son, the future Prime Minister William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.
  • E. William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
    William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was an 18th-century British statesman and colonial secretary whose sympathetic stance toward the American colonies led several places in New England, including Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to be named in his honor.
  • 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: Francis Cornwallis
Triple: [British occupation of Newport (1776), commander, Francis Cornwallis]
Generated description
Francis Cornwallis was a British military officer who commanded forces during the 1776 occupation of Newport in the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Cornwallis
Target entity description: Francis Cornwallis was a British military officer who commanded forces during the 1776 occupation of Newport in the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. Frederick Cornwallis
    Frederick Cornwallis was an 18th-century English clergyman who became Archbishop of Canterbury and a prominent religious figure in the Church of England.
  • B. Charles Thornton Townshend
    Charles Thornton Townshend was a British gentleman of the 19th century best known as the father of Major-General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, a prominent officer in the British Army.
  • C. Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
    Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman who served as a senior British colonial administrator and played a significant role in the policies leading up to the American Revolution.
  • D. John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne
    John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne, was an 18th-century Irish-born British peer and politician who established the Shelburne title later held by his more famous son, the future Prime Minister William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.
  • E. William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
    William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was an 18th-century British statesman and colonial secretary whose sympathetic stance toward the American colonies led several places in New England, including Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to be named in his honor.
  • 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_69d8d393ba9c8190a8b03b04ddbb0a09 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e56ab6e0948190b8c70bdea43d2ee5 completed April 19, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052b43526481909c49cf343e4117a9 completed May 14, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a052c813048819084870287ed9dce27 completed May 14, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a052cec9c788190a0c9396b35dd95c0 completed May 14, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:50 a.m.