Triple

T15935998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colebrooke–Cameron reforms E386442 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Macbean George Colebrooke
William Macbean George Colebrooke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for co-authoring major administrative and constitutional reforms in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), commonly referred to as the Colebrooke–Cameron reforms.
E1184421 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: William Macbean George Colebrooke | Statement: [Colebrooke–Cameron reforms, namedAfter, William Macbean George Colebrooke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Macbean George Colebrooke
Context triple: [Colebrooke–Cameron reforms, namedAfter, William Macbean George Colebrooke]
  • A. Henry Thomas Colebrooke
    Henry Thomas Colebrooke was a pioneering British orientalist and Sanskrit scholar often regarded as one of the founders of modern Indology.
  • B. James Prinsep
    James Prinsep was a 19th-century British scholar and antiquary best known for deciphering ancient Indian scripts, which unlocked the historical understanding of Emperor Ashoka and early Indian epigraphy.
  • C. Reginald Fleming Johnston
    Reginald Fleming Johnston was a British colonial official and scholar best known as the tutor to China’s last emperor, Puyi, and for his writings on Chinese culture and history.
  • D. Brian Houghton Hodgson
    Brian Houghton Hodgson was a 19th-century British naturalist and ethnologist known for his pioneering studies of the wildlife, languages, and cultures of Nepal and the Himalayas.
  • E. Arthur Rhys-Davids
    Arthur Rhys-Davids was a British First World War flying ace renowned for his exceptional aerial combat skills and for shooting down the famous German ace Werner Voss.
  • 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: William Macbean George Colebrooke
Triple: [Colebrooke–Cameron reforms, namedAfter, William Macbean George Colebrooke]
Generated description
William Macbean George Colebrooke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for co-authoring major administrative and constitutional reforms in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), commonly referred to as the Colebrooke–Cameron reforms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Macbean George Colebrooke
Target entity description: William Macbean George Colebrooke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for co-authoring major administrative and constitutional reforms in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), commonly referred to as the Colebrooke–Cameron reforms.
  • A. Henry Thomas Colebrooke
    Henry Thomas Colebrooke was a pioneering British orientalist and Sanskrit scholar often regarded as one of the founders of modern Indology.
  • B. James Prinsep
    James Prinsep was a 19th-century British scholar and antiquary best known for deciphering ancient Indian scripts, which unlocked the historical understanding of Emperor Ashoka and early Indian epigraphy.
  • C. Reginald Fleming Johnston
    Reginald Fleming Johnston was a British colonial official and scholar best known as the tutor to China’s last emperor, Puyi, and for his writings on Chinese culture and history.
  • D. Brian Houghton Hodgson
    Brian Houghton Hodgson was a 19th-century British naturalist and ethnologist known for his pioneering studies of the wildlife, languages, and cultures of Nepal and the Himalayas.
  • E. Arthur Rhys-Davids
    Arthur Rhys-Davids was a British First World War flying ace renowned for his exceptional aerial combat skills and for shooting down the famous German ace Werner Voss.
  • 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.