Triple

T12228976
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Henry Pottinger E291424 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Sir John Francis Davis
Sir John Francis Davis was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and sinologist who served as Governor of Hong Kong and was noted for his scholarship on Chinese language and culture.
E969947 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: Sir John Francis Davis | Statement: [Sir Henry Pottinger, successor, Sir John Francis Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Francis Davis
Context triple: [Sir Henry Pottinger, successor, Sir John Francis Davis]
  • A. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • B. Richard E. Byrd
    Richard E. Byrd was a pioneering American naval officer and polar explorer renowned for his expeditions to Antarctica and his claimed early flights over the North and South Poles.
  • C. Frank Worsley
    Frank Worsley was a New Zealand sailor and explorer best known as the captain of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance and for his crucial role in the survival and rescue of the expedition members.
  • D. Ernest E. Evans
    Ernest E. Evans was a U.S. Navy destroyer commander and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic leadership during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
  • E. Edward Bransfield
    Edward Bransfield was a 19th-century Irish-born British naval officer and explorer noted for his early charting and exploration of the Antarctic region.
  • 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: Sir John Francis Davis
Triple: [Sir Henry Pottinger, successor, Sir John Francis Davis]
Generated description
Sir John Francis Davis was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and sinologist who served as Governor of Hong Kong and was noted for his scholarship on Chinese language and culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Francis Davis
Target entity description: Sir John Francis Davis was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and sinologist who served as Governor of Hong Kong and was noted for his scholarship on Chinese language and culture.
  • A. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • B. Richard E. Byrd
    Richard E. Byrd was a pioneering American naval officer and polar explorer renowned for his expeditions to Antarctica and his claimed early flights over the North and South Poles.
  • C. Frank Worsley
    Frank Worsley was a New Zealand sailor and explorer best known as the captain of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance and for his crucial role in the survival and rescue of the expedition members.
  • D. Ernest E. Evans
    Ernest E. Evans was a U.S. Navy destroyer commander and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic leadership during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
  • E. Edward Bransfield
    Edward Bransfield was a 19th-century Irish-born British naval officer and explorer noted for his early charting and exploration of the Antarctic region.
  • 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_69d6ab668acc8190963ba424049d6aee completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91ca34fe88190900c8791c70948b7 completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60aab4a70819099856b990e3a8a1b completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60c9276d0819086b5f7712fe8d6e6 completed May 2, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60d4c30448190874f253b864ef61e completed May 2, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.