Triple

T10886970
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division E257072 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
E891422 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: Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith | Statement: [52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, notableCommander, Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Context triple: [52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, notableCommander, Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith]
  • A. Major-General Rupert Smith
    Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
  • B. Major-General Charles Foulkes
    Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
  • C. Major-General Patrick Cordingley
    Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
  • D. Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
    Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse was a British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of armoured and Indian Army formations in the North African and Middle Eastern campaigns.
  • E. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • 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: Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Triple: [52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, notableCommander, Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith]
Generated description
Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Target entity description: Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
  • A. Major-General Rupert Smith
    Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
  • B. Major-General Charles Foulkes
    Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
  • C. Major-General Patrick Cordingley
    Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
  • D. Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
    Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse was a British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of armoured and Indian Army formations in the North African and Middle Eastern campaigns.
  • E. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • 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_69d6aa848804819081b2713ca0bedf06 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d751dea1a88190b916879be8d74413 completed April 9, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dff7edfee48190802e992f4a299db0 completed April 15, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e0b498df2481908c964d53b1782774 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e11e21fc2c8190878a877ecd3b465e completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:21 p.m.