Triple

T14477476
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land E359009 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object William Sorell
William Sorell was a British colonial administrator who served in the early 19th century and is best known for his governorship of what is now Tasmania, where he implemented significant reforms in a penal colony setting.
E1101797 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 Sorell | Statement: [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, officeHolder, William Sorell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sorell
Context triple: [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, officeHolder, William Sorell]
  • A. Lachlan Macquarie
    Lachlan Macquarie was an early 19th-century Governor of New South Wales whose reforms and public works were pivotal in shaping the development of colonial Australia.
  • B. Anthony van Diemen
    Anthony van Diemen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for expanding Dutch influence in Asia and for lending his name to Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
  • C. William Copp
    William Copp was a Boston resident and early landowner after whom the historic Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the North End is named.
  • D. Ralph Darling
    Ralph Darling was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831 and oversaw significant colonial expansion and infrastructure development.
  • E. William Charles Wentworth
    William Charles Wentworth was a prominent 19th-century Australian explorer, politician, and statesman who played a key role in advocating for self-government and civil liberties in colonial New South Wales.
  • 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 Sorell
Triple: [Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, officeHolder, William Sorell]
Generated description
William Sorell was a British colonial administrator who served in the early 19th century and is best known for his governorship of what is now Tasmania, where he implemented significant reforms in a penal colony setting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sorell
Target entity description: William Sorell was a British colonial administrator who served in the early 19th century and is best known for his governorship of what is now Tasmania, where he implemented significant reforms in a penal colony setting.
  • A. Lachlan Macquarie
    Lachlan Macquarie was an early 19th-century Governor of New South Wales whose reforms and public works were pivotal in shaping the development of colonial Australia.
  • B. Anthony van Diemen
    Anthony van Diemen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for expanding Dutch influence in Asia and for lending his name to Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
  • C. William Copp
    William Copp was a Boston resident and early landowner after whom the historic Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the North End is named.
  • D. Ralph Darling
    Ralph Darling was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831 and oversaw significant colonial expansion and infrastructure development.
  • E. William Charles Wentworth
    William Charles Wentworth was a prominent 19th-century Australian explorer, politician, and statesman who played a key role in advocating for self-government and civil liberties in colonial New South Wales.
  • 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.