Triple

T12956181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Commissioner of Weihaiwei E310016 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Sir James Stewart Lockhart
Sir James Stewart Lockhart was a British colonial administrator and sinologist best known for his governance roles in East Asia, particularly in China.
E1018154 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 James Stewart Lockhart | Statement: [British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, officeHolder, Sir James Stewart Lockhart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir James Stewart Lockhart
Context triple: [British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, officeHolder, Sir James Stewart Lockhart]
  • A. Sir John Campbell Brodie
    Sir John Campbell Brodie was a Scottish nobleman and public figure who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, acting as the British monarch’s representative in that county.
  • B. Sir Malcolm Murray
    Sir Malcolm Murray is a fictional Victorian-era explorer and aristocrat who serves as a central character in the horror drama television series "Penny Dreadful."
  • C. Sir Archibald Dunbar
    Sir Archibald Dunbar was a Scottish nobleman and landowner who served as Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, acting as the British monarch’s chief representative in the county.
  • D. Sir John Aird
    Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
  • E. Sir John Ritchie Findlay
    Sir John Ritchie Findlay was a Scottish newspaper proprietor and philanthropist from the prominent Findlay family associated with The Scotsman.
  • 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 James Stewart Lockhart
Triple: [British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, officeHolder, Sir James Stewart Lockhart]
Generated description
Sir James Stewart Lockhart was a British colonial administrator and sinologist best known for his governance roles in East Asia, particularly in China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir James Stewart Lockhart
Target entity description: Sir James Stewart Lockhart was a British colonial administrator and sinologist best known for his governance roles in East Asia, particularly in China.
  • A. Sir John Campbell Brodie
    Sir John Campbell Brodie was a Scottish nobleman and public figure who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, acting as the British monarch’s representative in that county.
  • B. Sir Malcolm Murray
    Sir Malcolm Murray is a fictional Victorian-era explorer and aristocrat who serves as a central character in the horror drama television series "Penny Dreadful."
  • C. Sir Archibald Dunbar
    Sir Archibald Dunbar was a Scottish nobleman and landowner who served as Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, acting as the British monarch’s chief representative in the county.
  • D. Sir John Aird
    Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
  • E. Sir John Ritchie Findlay
    Sir John Ritchie Findlay was a Scottish newspaper proprietor and philanthropist from the prominent Findlay family associated with The Scotsman.
  • 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e2b0108819098a681f93e90dbda completed April 10, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6cbbf0fb08190aeb1697714942c2b completed May 3, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6cd706f548190af79efa973434af9 completed May 3, 2026, 4:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6ce23ca208190960409130c4c52a9 completed May 3, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:44 p.m.