Triple

T10462638
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton E246712 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies E428411 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | Statement: [George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, positionHeld, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
Context triple: [George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, positionHeld, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]
  • A. Under-Secretary of State for War chosen
    The Under-Secretary of State for War was a junior British government ministerial post within the War Office, responsible for assisting in the administration and oversight of the Army.
  • B. Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
    The Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was a senior British cabinet post responsible for overseeing both military affairs and the administration of the British Empire’s colonies during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Secretary of State for War
    The Secretary of State for War was a senior British government minister responsible for overseeing the administration, organization, and policy of the British Army before the role was abolished and its functions absorbed into the Ministry of Defence.
  • D. Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War
    The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War was the senior civil servant responsible for overseeing the administration and day-to-day operations of the British Army within the United Kingdom government.
  • E. Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff
    The Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff was a senior British Army post serving as the principal deputy to the professional head of the Army, responsible for high-level strategic planning and administration.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d381c16c248190a2fe5b471e584e9c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d50884fac48190af22e181b1492557 completed April 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d89fd865688190b0b5708481f397f4 completed April 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:19 p.m.