Triple

T11641595
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Theodore Hook E276672 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon
The Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon was a senior colonial administrative office responsible for overseeing government finances and treasury functions in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
E937518 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: Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon | Statement: [Theodore Hook, positionHeld, Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon
Context triple: [Theodore Hook, positionHeld, Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon]
  • A. Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
    The Colonial Secretary of Ceylon was a senior British colonial administrative post responsible for overseeing civil governance and acting as a chief advisor to the Governor in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
  • B. Governor of Ceylon
    The Governor of Ceylon was the British Crown’s chief colonial administrator and representative in Ceylon, overseeing its governance during the period of British rule.
  • C. Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka
    The Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka is the cabinet official responsible for overseeing the country’s economic policy, public finances, and national budget.
  • D. Governor-General of Ceylon
    The Governor-General of Ceylon was the British monarch’s representative and de facto head of state in Ceylon during its period as a dominion within the Commonwealth.
  • E. Chief Justice of Ceylon
    The Chief Justice of Ceylon was the highest-ranking judicial officer and head of the island’s supreme court during the period of British colonial rule and early independence.
  • 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: Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon
Triple: [Theodore Hook, positionHeld, Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon]
Generated description
The Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon was a senior colonial administrative office responsible for overseeing government finances and treasury functions in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon
Target entity description: The Accountant-General and Treasurer of Ceylon was a senior colonial administrative office responsible for overseeing government finances and treasury functions in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
  • A. Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
    The Colonial Secretary of Ceylon was a senior British colonial administrative post responsible for overseeing civil governance and acting as a chief advisor to the Governor in British-ruled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
  • B. Governor of Ceylon
    The Governor of Ceylon was the British Crown’s chief colonial administrator and representative in Ceylon, overseeing its governance during the period of British rule.
  • C. Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka
    The Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka is the cabinet official responsible for overseeing the country’s economic policy, public finances, and national budget.
  • D. Governor-General of Ceylon
    The Governor-General of Ceylon was the British monarch’s representative and de facto head of state in Ceylon during its period as a dominion within the Commonwealth.
  • E. Chief Justice of Ceylon
    The Chief Justice of Ceylon was the highest-ranking judicial officer and head of the island’s supreme court during the period of British colonial rule and early independence.
  • 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_69d6aafbb3c081908a9cdb4ecb8d981d completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a260ab488190ab1c00d9850f3096 completed April 10, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ee87deb3888190842bd61efd7b3989 completed April 26, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69eeb31438f88190bab71212293f2d2e completed April 27, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69eecd954b348190bf2f3ad66acbf1b7 completed April 27, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:39 p.m.