Triple

T13512009
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumfries Academy E322662 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Jardine (opium trader)
William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish physician-turned-merchant who co-founded the powerful trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. and played a key role in the opium trade and the events leading up to the First Opium War.
E1044941 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: William Jardine (opium trader) | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine (opium trader)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jardine (opium trader)
Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine (opium trader)]
  • A. Robert Hart
    Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Edward Lloyd
    Edward Lloyd was a London coffee house owner whose establishment became a key meeting place for merchants and shipowners, ultimately leading to the creation of the maritime classification society Lloyd’s Register.
  • C. Thomas Stamford Raffles
    Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator best known as the founder of modern Singapore and a key figure in expanding British influence in Southeast Asia.
  • D. Lai Teck
    Lai Teck was the elusive and controversial secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party before and during World War II, later exposed as a triple agent whose betrayal crippled the communist movement in Malaya.
  • E. William Farquhar
    William Farquhar was a Scottish colonial administrator and soldier best known as the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, where he played a key role in its early development under the British East India Company.
  • 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: William Jardine (opium trader)
Triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine (opium trader)]
Generated description
William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish physician-turned-merchant who co-founded the powerful trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. and played a key role in the opium trade and the events leading up to the First Opium War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jardine (opium trader)
Target entity description: William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish physician-turned-merchant who co-founded the powerful trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. and played a key role in the opium trade and the events leading up to the First Opium War.
  • A. Robert Hart
    Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Edward Lloyd
    Edward Lloyd was a London coffee house owner whose establishment became a key meeting place for merchants and shipowners, ultimately leading to the creation of the maritime classification society Lloyd’s Register.
  • C. Thomas Stamford Raffles
    Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator best known as the founder of modern Singapore and a key figure in expanding British influence in Southeast Asia.
  • D. Lai Teck
    Lai Teck was the elusive and controversial secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party before and during World War II, later exposed as a triple agent whose betrayal crippled the communist movement in Malaya.
  • E. William Farquhar
    William Farquhar was a Scottish colonial administrator and soldier best known as the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, where he played a key role in its early development under the British East India Company.
  • 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf86a6208190be8c18f7a0158f23 completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75492676c81909602745e2b6436cb completed May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7555173d08190be887e81c148192e completed May 3, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f756773b9c81908250ae7ffc2d8d99 completed May 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.