Triple

T12628425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Labour Government (1929–1931) E301576 entity
Predicate secretaryOfStateForWar P33495 FINISHED
Object Thomas Shaw
Thomas Shaw was a British Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for War in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
E1005361 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: Thomas Shaw | Statement: [Second Labour Government (1929–1931), secretaryOfStateForWar, Thomas Shaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Shaw
Context triple: [Second Labour Government (1929–1931), secretaryOfStateForWar, Thomas Shaw]
  • A. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • B. James Dawson
    James Dawson was a 19th-century English industrialist and landowner associated with the construction of Wray Castle in the Lake District.
  • C. William Burnes
    William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
  • D. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • E. James Gowan
    James Gowan was a Scottish-born architect known for his influential postwar modernist and Brutalist designs, particularly through his early partnership with James Stirling.
  • 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: Thomas Shaw
Triple: [Second Labour Government (1929–1931), secretaryOfStateForWar, Thomas Shaw]
Generated description
Thomas Shaw was a British Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for War in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Shaw
Target entity description: Thomas Shaw was a British Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for War in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
  • A. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • B. James Dawson
    James Dawson was a 19th-century English industrialist and landowner associated with the construction of Wray Castle in the Lake District.
  • C. William Burnes
    William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
  • D. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • E. James Gowan
    James Gowan was a Scottish-born architect known for his influential postwar modernist and Brutalist designs, particularly through his early partnership with James Stirling.
  • 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_69d7bdeaf49c8190b13800111fa77ea3 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9610ce9e48190a496824002c0d2be completed April 10, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68eab6148819080a58e20499186fa completed May 2, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69061011c81908cb045925cfefdd7 completed May 3, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69138b40881909e9c74d6d922e1f3 completed May 3, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:15 p.m.