Triple

T15672024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire E377336 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object Sir Robert Liston
Sir Robert Liston was a prominent late 18th- and early 19th-century British diplomat best known for his influential ambassadorial postings, including key roles in the Ottoman Empire and the United States.
E1171250 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: Sir Robert Liston | Statement: [British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, notableOfficeHolder, Sir Robert Liston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Robert Liston
Context triple: [British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, notableOfficeHolder, Sir Robert Liston]
  • A. Joseph Jackson Lister
    Joseph Jackson Lister was a pioneering 19th-century English amateur scientist and wine merchant whose improvements to the optical microscope significantly advanced the field of microscopy.
  • B. Francis Bell
    Francis Bell was a New Zealand politician and lawyer who briefly served as the country's prime minister in the early 20th century.
  • C. Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • D. Sir William Lister
    Sir William Lister was an English politician and parliamentarian active during the mid-17th century, involved in the governance of England during the Civil War and Interregnum.
  • E. Sir John Harvey
    Sir John Harvey was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and played a key diplomatic role in defusing tensions during the Aroostook War between the United States and British North America.
  • 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: Sir Robert Liston
Triple: [British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, notableOfficeHolder, Sir Robert Liston]
Generated description
Sir Robert Liston was a prominent late 18th- and early 19th-century British diplomat best known for his influential ambassadorial postings, including key roles in the Ottoman Empire and the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Robert Liston
Target entity description: Sir Robert Liston was a prominent late 18th- and early 19th-century British diplomat best known for his influential ambassadorial postings, including key roles in the Ottoman Empire and the United States.
  • A. Joseph Jackson Lister
    Joseph Jackson Lister was a pioneering 19th-century English amateur scientist and wine merchant whose improvements to the optical microscope significantly advanced the field of microscopy.
  • B. Francis Bell
    Francis Bell was a New Zealand politician and lawyer who briefly served as the country's prime minister in the early 20th century.
  • C. Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister was a pioneering British surgeon who revolutionized medicine by introducing antiseptic techniques that drastically reduced surgical infections and mortality.
  • D. Sir William Lister
    Sir William Lister was an English politician and parliamentarian active during the mid-17th century, involved in the governance of England during the Civil War and Interregnum.
  • E. Sir John Harvey
    Sir John Harvey was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and played a key diplomatic role in defusing tensions during the Aroostook War between the United States and British North America.
  • 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_69d85cd2e28481909d4e975bee20872f completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f13b1b08190beabc9f4098aa096 completed April 16, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff6ed8d9188190a68035d2508b117d completed May 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6f691b1c8190a5b6ede22f90a1d9 completed May 9, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff700c8c748190a24996936d591435 completed May 9, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:16 a.m.