Triple

T14557210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British mission in the Baltic E341569 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object Rear Admiral Walter Cowan
Rear Admiral Walter Cowan was a British Royal Navy officer noted for his aggressive leadership and special operations during World War I and World War II, including actions in the Baltic and North Africa.
E1106037 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: Rear Admiral Walter Cowan | Statement: [British mission in the Baltic, commandedBy, Rear Admiral Walter Cowan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Walter Cowan
Context triple: [British mission in the Baltic, commandedBy, Rear Admiral Walter Cowan]
  • A. Rear Admiral Harold Burrough
    Rear Admiral Harold Burrough was a senior Royal Navy officer best known for commanding naval forces in key World War II operations, including the critical Malta relief effort known as Operation Pedestal.
  • B. Rear Admiral George Tarrant
    Rear Admiral George Tarrant is a fictional high-ranking U.S. Navy officer who serves as a central figure and moral anchor in James A. Michener’s Korean War novel and its film adaptation, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri."
  • C. Rear Admiral Peter Rainier
    Rear Admiral Peter Rainier was a British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, honored through the naming of several geographic features, including Mount Rainier in Washington State.
  • D. Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen
    Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen was a 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his service in the Civil War and his influential role in modernizing naval administration and strategy.
  • E. Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen
    Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen was a senior United States Navy officer in World War II, noted for his leadership of cruiser and task force operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
  • 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: Rear Admiral Walter Cowan
Triple: [British mission in the Baltic, commandedBy, Rear Admiral Walter Cowan]
Generated description
Rear Admiral Walter Cowan was a British Royal Navy officer noted for his aggressive leadership and special operations during World War I and World War II, including actions in the Baltic and North Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Walter Cowan
Target entity description: Rear Admiral Walter Cowan was a British Royal Navy officer noted for his aggressive leadership and special operations during World War I and World War II, including actions in the Baltic and North Africa.
  • A. Rear Admiral Harold Burrough
    Rear Admiral Harold Burrough was a senior Royal Navy officer best known for commanding naval forces in key World War II operations, including the critical Malta relief effort known as Operation Pedestal.
  • B. Rear Admiral George Tarrant
    Rear Admiral George Tarrant is a fictional high-ranking U.S. Navy officer who serves as a central figure and moral anchor in James A. Michener’s Korean War novel and its film adaptation, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri."
  • C. Rear Admiral Peter Rainier
    Rear Admiral Peter Rainier was a British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, honored through the naming of several geographic features, including Mount Rainier in Washington State.
  • D. Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen
    Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen was a 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his service in the Civil War and his influential role in modernizing naval administration and strategy.
  • E. Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen
    Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen was a senior United States Navy officer in World War II, noted for his leadership of cruiser and task force operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
  • 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_69d822db9c8481908213ceb39585f792 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb2f1490881908673f429e5288c86 completed April 14, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd8abde0308190819da6867e703ea7 completed May 8, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd8bb3c1188190b158d30e9c962911 completed May 8, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd8c6e7d448190835f87e27c998623 completed May 8, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:23 a.m.