Triple

T15935976

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Flag of the Governor of British Ceylon	`E386441`	entity
Predicate	symbolOf	`P129`	FINISHED
Object	office of the Governor of British Ceylon The office of the Governor of British Ceylon was the highest colonial administrative post representing the British Crown in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until independence.	`E1184420`	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: office of the Governor of British Ceylon | Statement: [Flag of the Governor of British Ceylon, symbolOf, office of the Governor of British Ceylon]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: office of the Governor of British Ceylon
Context triple: [Flag of the Governor of British Ceylon, symbolOf, office of the Governor of British Ceylon]

A. office of Governor-General of Ceylon
The office of Governor-General of Ceylon was the post-independence viceregal position representing the British monarch as head of state in Ceylon until the country became a republic.
B. Government of Ceylon
The Government of Ceylon was the central governing authority of the British Crown colony and later dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until the country became a republic in 1972.
C. Cabinet of Ceylon
The Cabinet of Ceylon was the principal executive decision-making body of the former British Dominion of Ceylon, composed of the prime minister and other appointed ministers responsible for governing the country.
D. Ceylon Civil Service
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
E. Executive Council of Ceylon
The Executive Council of Ceylon was the principal governing and advisory body to the British colonial governor in Ceylon, functioning as the colony’s central executive authority before independence.
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: office of the Governor of British Ceylon
Triple: [Flag of the Governor of British Ceylon, symbolOf, office of the Governor of British Ceylon]

Generated description

The office of the Governor of British Ceylon was the highest colonial administrative post representing the British Crown in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until independence.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: office of the Governor of British Ceylon
Target entity description: The office of the Governor of British Ceylon was the highest colonial administrative post representing the British Crown in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until independence.

A. office of Governor-General of Ceylon
The office of Governor-General of Ceylon was the post-independence viceregal position representing the British monarch as head of state in Ceylon until the country became a republic.
B. Government of Ceylon
The Government of Ceylon was the central governing authority of the British Crown colony and later dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) until the country became a republic in 1972.
C. Cabinet of Ceylon
The Cabinet of Ceylon was the principal executive decision-making body of the former British Dominion of Ceylon, composed of the prime minister and other appointed ministers responsible for governing the country.
D. Ceylon Civil Service
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
E. Executive Council of Ceylon
The Executive Council of Ceylon was the principal governing and advisory body to the British colonial governor in Ceylon, functioning as the colony’s central executive authority before independence.
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.