Triple

T15935870
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch Governor of Ceylon E386439 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Willem Jacobszoon Coster
Willem Jacobszoon Coster was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as an early governor in Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
 E1228493 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: Willem Jacobszoon Coster | Statement: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacobszoon Coster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willem Jacobszoon Coster
Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacobszoon Coster]
  • A. Cornelis van Poelenburgh
    Cornelis van Poelenburgh was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his small, finely detailed Italianate landscapes and mythological scenes.
  • B. Adriaan Metius
    Adriaan Metius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work on geometry, surveying, and approximations of π.
  • C. Adriaen de Vries
    Adriaen de Vries was a prominent late Mannerist Dutch sculptor renowned for his dynamic bronze figures and service at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague.
  • D. Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg
    Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg was a Dutch Golden Age engraver known for his detailed prints and for continuing the artistic legacy of the van Swanenburg family in Leiden.
  • E. Pieter Jansz. Reynst
    Pieter Jansz. Reynst was a 17th-century Dutch merchant and art collector known for assembling an important collection of classical sculptures and Italian paintings.
  • 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: Willem Jacobszoon Coster
Triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacobszoon Coster]
Generated description
Willem Jacobszoon Coster was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as an early governor in Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willem Jacobszoon Coster
Target entity description: Willem Jacobszoon Coster was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as an early governor in Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
  • A. Cornelis van Poelenburgh
    Cornelis van Poelenburgh was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his small, finely detailed Italianate landscapes and mythological scenes.
  • B. Adriaan Metius
    Adriaan Metius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work on geometry, surveying, and approximations of π.
  • C. Adriaen de Vries
    Adriaen de Vries was a prominent late Mannerist Dutch sculptor renowned for his dynamic bronze figures and service at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague.
  • D. Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg
    Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg was a Dutch Golden Age engraver known for his detailed prints and for continuing the artistic legacy of the van Swanenburg family in Leiden.
  • E. Pieter Jansz. Reynst
    Pieter Jansz. Reynst was a 17th-century Dutch merchant and art collector known for assembling an important collection of classical sculptures and Italian paintings.
  • 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_69d86da750008190987eb26be3f6c118 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e156aa33948190b2d5936d2db0071d completed April 16, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a008a1f8d648190b9c6280b875a17e4 completed May 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008ccaba388190afb9f17e20716d2e completed May 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008d3c6fe081908c70e884eafb576f completed May 10, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.