Triple

T13895916
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Edward Lynch Cotton E334086 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton
Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton was a British Army officer of the 19th century and the son of Anglican bishop and educational reformer George Edward Lynch Cotton.
E1068730 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: Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton | Statement: [George Edward Lynch Cotton, father, Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton
Context triple: [George Edward Lynch Cotton, father, Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton]
  • A. Captain Christopher Wreford-Brown
    Captain Christopher Wreford-Brown is a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War, when it torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
  • B. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
  • C. Ralph Abercromby
    Ralph Abercromby was a British Army general and politician renowned for his leadership in the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly in campaigns in the Caribbean, Egypt, and the Low Countries.
  • D. Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton
    Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton was a 19th-century British naval officer who served in the Royal Navy and was killed during the New Zealand Wars.
  • E. Sir Andrew Humphrey
    Sir Andrew Humphrey was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to the highest ranks of British military aviation, including serving as Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the 1970s.
  • 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: Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton
Triple: [George Edward Lynch Cotton, father, Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton]
Generated description
Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton was a British Army officer of the 19th century and the son of Anglican bishop and educational reformer George Edward Lynch Cotton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton
Target entity description: Captain Thomas George D’Avenant Cotton was a British Army officer of the 19th century and the son of Anglican bishop and educational reformer George Edward Lynch Cotton.
  • A. Captain Christopher Wreford-Brown
    Captain Christopher Wreford-Brown is a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War, when it torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
  • B. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
  • C. Ralph Abercromby
    Ralph Abercromby was a British Army general and politician renowned for his leadership in the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly in campaigns in the Caribbean, Egypt, and the Low Countries.
  • D. Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton
    Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton was a 19th-century British naval officer who served in the Royal Navy and was killed during the New Zealand Wars.
  • E. Sir Andrew Humphrey
    Sir Andrew Humphrey was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to the highest ranks of British military aviation, including serving as Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the 1970s.
  • 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_69d81c5dd2d48190b7a5fc1e009de936 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de25d72c6c819093bf9c43136839d4 completed April 14, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7c71eb1808190b0a3a28a8011e9c7 completed May 3, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7c868bdfc8190a13379363d01568d completed May 3, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7c9732d188190a8a7151d21e0a310 completed May 3, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:15 p.m.