Triple

T14493932
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Romaine Govett E359439 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales
The Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales was a colonial-era government agency responsible for surveying, mapping, and managing land in the Australian colony of New South Wales.
E1102131 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: Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales | Statement: [William Romaine Govett, employer, Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales
Context triple: [William Romaine Govett, employer, Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales]
  • A. South Australian Surveyor-General’s Department
    The South Australian Surveyor-General’s Department was a colonial government agency responsible for surveying, mapping, and managing land administration in South Australia.
  • B. Secretary for Lands of New South Wales
    The Secretary for Lands of New South Wales was a senior government ministerial role responsible for overseeing land administration, allocation, and related policies in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • C. Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
    The Colonial Secretary of New South Wales was a senior ministerial office in the colonial government responsible for internal administration and governance before the establishment of the modern premiership.
  • D. Surveyor-General of Victoria
    The Surveyor-General of Victoria is the senior government official responsible for overseeing land surveying, mapping, and cadastral administration in the Australian state of Victoria.
  • E. New South Wales Public Works Department
    The New South Wales Public Works Department was a government agency responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining major public infrastructure and buildings in the Australian state of 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: Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales
Triple: [William Romaine Govett, employer, Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales]
Generated description
The Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales was a colonial-era government agency responsible for surveying, mapping, and managing land in the Australian colony of New South Wales.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales
Target entity description: The Surveyor-General’s Department of New South Wales was a colonial-era government agency responsible for surveying, mapping, and managing land in the Australian colony of New South Wales.
  • A. South Australian Surveyor-General’s Department
    The South Australian Surveyor-General’s Department was a colonial government agency responsible for surveying, mapping, and managing land administration in South Australia.
  • B. Secretary for Lands of New South Wales
    The Secretary for Lands of New South Wales was a senior government ministerial role responsible for overseeing land administration, allocation, and related policies in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • C. Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
    The Colonial Secretary of New South Wales was a senior ministerial office in the colonial government responsible for internal administration and governance before the establishment of the modern premiership.
  • D. Surveyor-General of Victoria
    The Surveyor-General of Victoria is the senior government official responsible for overseeing land surveying, mapping, and cadastral administration in the Australian state of Victoria.
  • E. New South Wales Public Works Department
    The New South Wales Public Works Department was a government agency responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining major public infrastructure and buildings in the Australian state of 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_69d8279740308190af9df93a3af8592e completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de930f34d08190b4b30e54e2f702ed completed April 14, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd6d9544cc81908105554f212a9b8c completed May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd6e75155081908cec8cac1101c17e completed May 8, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd6f38ea788190a957419ca1971b15 completed May 8, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.