Triple

T14477474
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land E359009 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object William Paterson
William Paterson was a Scottish soldier and botanist who became an early colonial administrator in Australia, playing a significant role in the establishment of settlements in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
E1101796 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 Paterson | Statement: [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, officeHolder, William Paterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Paterson
Context triple: [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, officeHolder, William Paterson]
  • A. William Paterson
    William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
  • B. William Paterson
    William Paterson was a British engineer and designer best known for creating the Anderson air-raid shelter used in the United Kingdom during World War II.
  • C. Gouverneur Morris
    Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
  • D. Frederick Muhlenberg
    Frederick Muhlenberg was an American politician and clergyman who became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the early years of the republic.
  • E. Thomas McKean
    Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
  • 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 Paterson
Triple: [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, officeHolder, William Paterson]
Generated description
William Paterson was a Scottish soldier and botanist who became an early colonial administrator in Australia, playing a significant role in the establishment of settlements in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Paterson
Target entity description: William Paterson was a Scottish soldier and botanist who became an early colonial administrator in Australia, playing a significant role in the establishment of settlements in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
  • A. William Paterson
    William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
  • B. William Paterson
    William Paterson was a British engineer and designer best known for creating the Anderson air-raid shelter used in the United Kingdom during World War II.
  • C. Gouverneur Morris
    Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
  • D. Frederick Muhlenberg
    Frederick Muhlenberg was an American politician and clergyman who became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the early years of the republic.
  • E. Thomas McKean
    Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69d827966698819082e140837737501d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de9248edb48190a74eb032aeaac027 completed April 14, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd64a0553081909fd88d8f39ed1a01 completed May 8, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd698579588190a49f6c7a91266117 completed May 8, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd6a6060488190ab5662037b52c591 completed May 8, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:20 a.m.