Triple

T12697687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Indian 19th Infantry Division E303377 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
E997577 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: Major General Thomas Wynford Rees | Statement: [Indian 19th Infantry Division, commander, Major General Thomas Wynford Rees]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
Context triple: [Indian 19th Infantry Division, commander, Major General Thomas Wynford Rees]
  • A. Major-General Richard Nelson Gale
    Major-General Richard Nelson Gale was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who commanded the 6th Airborne Division during key operations of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
  • B. Major General Harold Barrowclough
    Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
  • C. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
    Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
  • E. Major-General Patrick Cordingley
    Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
  • 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: Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
Triple: [Indian 19th Infantry Division, commander, Major General Thomas Wynford Rees]
Generated description
Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
Target entity description: Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
  • A. Major-General Richard Nelson Gale
    Major-General Richard Nelson Gale was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who commanded the 6th Airborne Division during key operations of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
  • B. Major General Harold Barrowclough
    Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
  • C. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
    Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
  • E. Major-General Patrick Cordingley
    Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
  • 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_69d7bdef90d48190b46b88270e780946 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961ed26588190ae76ff17159e06ec completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f671b066348190aedfe186fc4724f9 completed May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f672d16f8881908c6d5cfed0b3ec3a completed May 2, 2026, 9:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f67396fdac8190970068b2c39ad2f7 completed May 2, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:22 p.m.