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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.