Triple

T15935890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch Governor of Ceylon E386439 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Willem Jacob van de Graaf
Willem Jacob van de Graaf was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
E1187417 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 Jacob van de Graaf | Statement: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacob van de Graaf]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem Jacob van de Graaf
Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacob van de Graaf]
  • A. Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff
    Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon and later as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
  • B. Cornelius Leyden
    Cornelius Leyden is a mystery writer who becomes obsessively drawn into investigating the life and death of the criminal Dimitrios in Eric Ambler’s novel "The Mask of Dimitrios."
  • C. Pieter van Musschenbroek
    Pieter van Musschenbroek was an 18th-century Dutch scientist best known for co-inventing the Leyden jar, one of the earliest devices capable of storing electrical charge.
  • D. Herman Tjeenk Willink
    Herman Tjeenk Willink is a Dutch politician and former vice president of the Council of State, known for his influential role as a government adviser and informateur in cabinet formations.
  • E. Gustav de Vries
    Gustav de Vries was a Dutch mathematician best known for co-formulating the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation, a fundamental nonlinear partial differential equation in mathematical physics.
  • 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 Jacob van de Graaf
Triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacob van de Graaf]
Generated description
Willem Jacob van de Graaf was an 18th-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: Willem Jacob van de Graaf
Target entity description: Willem Jacob van de Graaf was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
  • A. Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff
    Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon and later as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
  • B. Cornelius Leyden
    Cornelius Leyden is a mystery writer who becomes obsessively drawn into investigating the life and death of the criminal Dimitrios in Eric Ambler’s novel "The Mask of Dimitrios."
  • C. Pieter van Musschenbroek
    Pieter van Musschenbroek was an 18th-century Dutch scientist best known for co-inventing the Leyden jar, one of the earliest devices capable of storing electrical charge.
  • D. Herman Tjeenk Willink
    Herman Tjeenk Willink is a Dutch politician and former vice president of the Council of State, known for his influential role as a government adviser and informateur in cabinet formations.
  • E. Gustav de Vries
    Gustav de Vries was a Dutch mathematician best known for co-formulating the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation, a fundamental nonlinear partial differential equation in mathematical physics.
  • 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_69ffc3bfe72c819095f40a255bcd7ad5 completed May 9, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffc43121b08190a7a471dcb13cc133 completed May 9, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffc4cea4108190927b107fc24df597 completed May 9, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.