Triple

T15935878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch Governor of Ceylon E386439 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Thomas van Rhee
Thomas van Rhee was a late 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
E1184414 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: Thomas van Rhee | Statement: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Thomas van Rhee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas van Rhee
Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Thomas van Rhee]
  • A. James D. van Hoften
    James D. van Hoften is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions, notably performing spacewalks to repair satellites.
  • B. John Van Tongeren
    John Van Tongeren is a film and television composer known for scoring movies such as "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous."
  • C. David Oelhoffen
    David Oelhoffen is a French film director and screenwriter known for his character-driven dramas and literary adaptations.
  • D. Paul Madvig
    Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
  • E. Eric Marienthal
    Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
  • 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: Thomas van Rhee
Triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Thomas van Rhee]
Generated description
Thomas van Rhee was a late 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas van Rhee
Target entity description: Thomas van Rhee was a late 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
  • A. James D. van Hoften
    James D. van Hoften is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions, notably performing spacewalks to repair satellites.
  • B. John Van Tongeren
    John Van Tongeren is a film and television composer known for scoring movies such as "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous."
  • C. David Oelhoffen
    David Oelhoffen is a French film director and screenwriter known for his character-driven dramas and literary adaptations.
  • D. Paul Madvig
    Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
  • E. Eric Marienthal
    Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
  • 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_69ffb5b8121881909b15bf6451d3d3a8 completed May 9, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb718d60481908ac0034ed8d8abc5 completed May 9, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb7c98cf8819097c7012040dbfe89 completed May 9, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.