Triple

T1151438
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Stamford Raffles E23685 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen
The Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen was the chief British colonial administrative post in the Sumatran settlement of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia) during the early 19th century.
E133713 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: Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen | Statement: [Thomas Stamford Raffles, positionHeld, Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen
Context triple: [Thomas Stamford Raffles, positionHeld, Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen]
  • A. Governor of the Straits Settlements
    The Governor of the Straits Settlements was the chief British colonial administrator overseeing the Straits Settlements territories in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Penang, and Malacca.
  • B. Lieutenant-Governor of Java
    The Lieutenant-Governor of Java was the chief British colonial administrator of the island during the early 19th-century period of British rule.
  • C. Governor-General of Bengal
    The Governor-General of Bengal was the chief British colonial administrator in India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a role that evolved into the office of Governor-General of India.
  • D. Commander-in-Chief, Bengal
    The Commander-in-Chief, Bengal was the senior-most military officer in charge of British India's Bengal Army, overseeing its administration, operations, and strategic command.
  • E. Viceroy of Portuguese India
    The Viceroy of Portuguese India was the crown-appointed chief colonial governor responsible for administering and overseeing Portugal’s Asian territories from its base in Goa.
  • 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: Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen
Triple: [Thomas Stamford Raffles, positionHeld, Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen]
Generated description
The Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen was the chief British colonial administrative post in the Sumatran settlement of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia) during the early 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen
Target entity description: The Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen was the chief British colonial administrative post in the Sumatran settlement of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia) during the early 19th century.
  • A. Governor of the Straits Settlements
    The Governor of the Straits Settlements was the chief British colonial administrator overseeing the Straits Settlements territories in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Penang, and Malacca.
  • B. Lieutenant-Governor of Java
    The Lieutenant-Governor of Java was the chief British colonial administrator of the island during the early 19th-century period of British rule.
  • C. Governor-General of Bengal
    The Governor-General of Bengal was the chief British colonial administrator in India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a role that evolved into the office of Governor-General of India.
  • D. Commander-in-Chief, Bengal
    The Commander-in-Chief, Bengal was the senior-most military officer in charge of British India's Bengal Army, overseeing its administration, operations, and strategic command.
  • E. Viceroy of Portuguese India
    The Viceroy of Portuguese India was the crown-appointed chief colonial governor responsible for administering and overseeing Portugal’s Asian territories from its base in Goa.
  • 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_69a493f0d32c8190ac74bad3c87f2641 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc744e7c81908f8612f2aad28600 completed March 1, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac667a61248190b71033daadef58e3 completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac66e3fecc81908638052a417ce4ab completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac67ab1ab48190b857bd473e741417 completed March 7, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.