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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.