Triple

T15935884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch Governor of Ceylon E386439 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Jacob van Kittensteyn
Jacob van Kittensteyn was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as a governor in the Dutch-controlled territories of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka).
E1242723 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: Jacob van Kittensteyn | Statement: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Jacob van Kittensteyn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob van Kittensteyn
Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Jacob van Kittensteyn]
  • A. Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn
    Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn was a Dutch navigator and one of the first Western advisers to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan in the early 17th century.
  • B. Abraham van Diepenbeeck
    Abraham van Diepenbeeck was a 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman known for his religious and mythological scenes, as well as his work on stained glass designs.
  • C. Dirck van Bleyswijck
    Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
  • D. Anthonie van Slingelandt
    Anthonie van Slingelandt was an 18th-century Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary of Holland known for his influential role in European diplomacy and political thought.
  • E. Balthasar van den Bossche
    Balthasar van den Bossche was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his elegant genre scenes and interiors, active in Antwerp around the turn of the 18th century.
  • 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: Jacob van Kittensteyn
Triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Jacob van Kittensteyn]
Generated description
Jacob van Kittensteyn was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as a governor in the Dutch-controlled territories of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob van Kittensteyn
Target entity description: Jacob van Kittensteyn was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as a governor in the Dutch-controlled territories of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka).
  • A. Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn
    Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn was a Dutch navigator and one of the first Western advisers to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan in the early 17th century.
  • B. Abraham van Diepenbeeck
    Abraham van Diepenbeeck was a 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman known for his religious and mythological scenes, as well as his work on stained glass designs.
  • C. Dirck van Bleyswijck
    Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
  • D. Anthonie van Slingelandt
    Anthonie van Slingelandt was an 18th-century Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary of Holland known for his influential role in European diplomacy and political thought.
  • E. Balthasar van den Bossche
    Balthasar van den Bossche was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his elegant genre scenes and interiors, active in Antwerp around the turn of the 18th century.
  • 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_6a00d447f5cc81908757869f2d1e94a1 completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d55f665c8190bd9a4bf594d0bac4 completed May 10, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d5c38a1081909e13c016f21899d2 completed May 10, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.