Triple

T15935921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject office of Governor-General of Ceylon E386440 entity
Predicate officeHolders P9949 FINISHED
Object Sir Oliver Goonetilleke
Sir Oliver Goonetilleke was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and civil servant who became the first Ceylonese Governor-General, playing a key role in the country’s transition from British colonial rule to independence.
E1185817 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 Oliver Goonetilleke | Statement: [office of Governor-General of Ceylon, officeHolders, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Oliver Goonetilleke
Context triple: [office of Governor-General of Ceylon, officeHolders, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke]
  • A. William Gopallawa
    William Gopallawa was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the country’s last Governor-General and later as its first non-executive President during the transition from dominion to republic.
  • B. Tony Jayawardena
    Tony Jayawardena is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Chasing Liberty."
  • C. Philip Gunawardena
    Philip Gunawardena was a prominent Sri Lankan socialist leader and independence activist often regarded as a key architect of the country’s leftist political movement.
  • D. Mangala Samaraweera
    Mangala Samaraweera was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and diplomat who held several key ministerial portfolios, including foreign affairs and finance, and played a major role in post-war reconciliation and international relations.
  • E. Subaskaran Allirajah
    Subaskaran Allirajah is a Sri Lankan-born British Tamil entrepreneur and film producer best known as the founder and chairman of the Lyca Group and its film production arm, Lyca Productions.
  • 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 Oliver Goonetilleke
Triple: [office of Governor-General of Ceylon, officeHolders, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke]
Generated description
Sir Oliver Goonetilleke was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and civil servant who became the first Ceylonese Governor-General, playing a key role in the country’s transition from British colonial rule to independence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Oliver Goonetilleke
Target entity description: Sir Oliver Goonetilleke was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and civil servant who became the first Ceylonese Governor-General, playing a key role in the country’s transition from British colonial rule to independence.
  • A. William Gopallawa
    William Gopallawa was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the country’s last Governor-General and later as its first non-executive President during the transition from dominion to republic.
  • B. Tony Jayawardena
    Tony Jayawardena is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Chasing Liberty."
  • C. Philip Gunawardena
    Philip Gunawardena was a prominent Sri Lankan socialist leader and independence activist often regarded as a key architect of the country’s leftist political movement.
  • D. Mangala Samaraweera
    Mangala Samaraweera was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and diplomat who held several key ministerial portfolios, including foreign affairs and finance, and played a major role in post-war reconciliation and international relations.
  • E. Subaskaran Allirajah
    Subaskaran Allirajah is a Sri Lankan-born British Tamil entrepreneur and film producer best known as the founder and chairman of the Lyca Group and its film production arm, Lyca Productions.
  • 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_69ffbe727c348190907c9e7a5db6031d completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffbf3e80b08190899262a9d03c0e93 completed May 9, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffbfc0d1548190b7d2e9e10e837f0b completed May 9, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.