Triple

T12956184
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Commissioner of Weihaiwei E310016 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Reginald Fleming Johnston
Reginald Fleming Johnston was a British colonial official and scholar best known as the tutor to China’s last emperor, Puyi, and for his writings on Chinese culture and history.
E1011284 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: Reginald Fleming Johnston | Statement: [British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, officeHolder, Reginald Fleming Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald Fleming Johnston
Context triple: [British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, officeHolder, Reginald Fleming Johnston]
  • A. Elphinstone Urquart
    Elphinstone Urquart is a minor character in the Harry Potter series known primarily as the late husband of Professor Minerva McGonagall.
  • B. Cuthbert Woodroffe
    Cuthbert Woodroffe was a Vincentian statesman who served as Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, acting as the monarch’s representative in the country.
  • C. Sir John Turnbull Macpherson
    Sir John Turnbull Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor and later Governor-General of Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Douglas Freshfield
    Douglas Freshfield was a 19th-century British mountaineer, explorer, and writer known for pioneering ascents and influential travel accounts in the Caucasus and other mountain regions.
  • E. R. A. Stewart Macalister
    R. A. Stewart Macalister was an Irish archaeologist known for his influential excavations and studies of early Irish sites and biblical archaeology.
  • 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: Reginald Fleming Johnston
Triple: [British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, officeHolder, Reginald Fleming Johnston]
Generated description
Reginald Fleming Johnston was a British colonial official and scholar best known as the tutor to China’s last emperor, Puyi, and for his writings on Chinese culture and history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald Fleming Johnston
Target entity description: Reginald Fleming Johnston was a British colonial official and scholar best known as the tutor to China’s last emperor, Puyi, and for his writings on Chinese culture and history.
  • A. Elphinstone Urquart
    Elphinstone Urquart is a minor character in the Harry Potter series known primarily as the late husband of Professor Minerva McGonagall.
  • B. Cuthbert Woodroffe
    Cuthbert Woodroffe was a Vincentian statesman who served as Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, acting as the monarch’s representative in the country.
  • C. Sir John Turnbull Macpherson
    Sir John Turnbull Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor and later Governor-General of Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Douglas Freshfield
    Douglas Freshfield was a 19th-century British mountaineer, explorer, and writer known for pioneering ascents and influential travel accounts in the Caucasus and other mountain regions.
  • E. R. A. Stewart Macalister
    R. A. Stewart Macalister was an Irish archaeologist known for his influential excavations and studies of early Irish sites and biblical archaeology.
  • 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_69f6af7ba4d88190952622e7a07ab39e completed May 3, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b066f3888190b925e5a43be57965 completed May 3, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b1aa191081908266128776a2147a completed May 3, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:44 p.m.