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]
  • 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
  • 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.