Triple
T1252679
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Leonard Woolf |
E26911
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ceylon Civil Service
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
|
E143660
|
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: Ceylon Civil Service | Statement: [Leonard Woolf, employer, Ceylon Civil Service]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ceylon Civil Service Context triple: [Leonard Woolf, employer, Ceylon Civil Service]
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A.
British Ceylon
British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
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B.
State Council of Ceylon
The State Council of Ceylon was a semi-legislative, semi-executive body established under British colonial rule that served as the main governing institution of Ceylon before independence.
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C.
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service was the elite administrative bureaucracy of British rule in India, responsible for governing and managing the colonial state's key functions.
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D.
Parliament of Ceylon
The Parliament of Ceylon was the bicameral national legislature of the British Dominion of Ceylon, functioning as its supreme law-making body until the country became the Republic of Sri Lanka.
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E.
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.
- 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: Ceylon Civil Service Triple: [Leonard Woolf, employer, Ceylon Civil Service]
Generated description
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ceylon Civil Service Target entity description: The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
-
A.
British Ceylon
British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
-
B.
State Council of Ceylon
The State Council of Ceylon was a semi-legislative, semi-executive body established under British colonial rule that served as the main governing institution of Ceylon before independence.
-
C.
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service was the elite administrative bureaucracy of British rule in India, responsible for governing and managing the colonial state's key functions.
-
D.
Parliament of Ceylon
The Parliament of Ceylon was the bicameral national legislature of the British Dominion of Ceylon, functioning as its supreme law-making body until the country became the Republic of Sri Lanka.
-
E.
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.
- 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_69a49487a9c48190ba9b05348fd1b53f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bf875cf48190b6781d41097ee39b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac93c903488190bcbf1928699bafd2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac942d359c81908d2c2acb4c1aa8d0 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:10 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac95cf8800819080d18d559f73dcc2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:17 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.