Triple

T1435913
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Calcutta E30559 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object John Zephaniah Holwell
John Zephaniah Holwell was an 18th-century British colonial official and writer in India, best known for his controversial account of the Black Hole of Calcutta.
E226954 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: John Zephaniah Holwell | Statement: [Siege of Calcutta, commander, John Zephaniah Holwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Zephaniah Holwell
Context triple: [Siege of Calcutta, commander, John Zephaniah Holwell]
  • A. W. W. Hodkinson
    W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
  • B. Edward Holcroft
    Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
  • C. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • D. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • E. Francis Hughes
    Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
  • 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: John Zephaniah Holwell
Triple: [Siege of Calcutta, commander, John Zephaniah Holwell]
Generated description
John Zephaniah Holwell was an 18th-century British colonial official and writer in India, best known for his controversial account of the Black Hole of Calcutta.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Zephaniah Holwell
Target entity description: John Zephaniah Holwell was an 18th-century British colonial official and writer in India, best known for his controversial account of the Black Hole of Calcutta.
  • A. W. W. Hodkinson
    W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
  • B. Edward Holcroft
    Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
  • C. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • D. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • E. Francis Hughes
    Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
  • 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_69a498fc69ec8190b61722bd4b67c4d2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c50250b88190a0fcf3e0cbba0b1a completed March 1, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0aa631788190836e00b3cce934ef completed March 8, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0e9310288190af35a7accfa609e3 completed March 9, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0eeb73088190b1ab31f7fcdc4f9d completed March 9, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.