Triple

T16808911

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Executive Committee of Communications and Works	`E408554`	entity
Predicate	hasAuthorityOver	`P544`	FINISHED
Object	public works department of Ceylon The public works department of Ceylon was the colonial-era government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining the island’s infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and public buildings.	`E1234597`	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: public works department of Ceylon | Statement: [Executive Committee of Communications and Works, hasAuthorityOver, public works department of Ceylon]

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

Target entity: public works department of Ceylon
Context triple: [Executive Committee of Communications and Works, hasAuthorityOver, public works department of Ceylon]

A. Ministry of Works
The Ministry of Works was a former UK government department responsible for the construction, maintenance, and preservation of public buildings and historic monuments.
B. 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.
C. Public Works Department of Singapore
The Public Works Department of Singapore was a former government agency responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining key public buildings and infrastructure across the country.
D. Department of Agriculture of Ceylon
The Department of Agriculture of Ceylon was the colonial-era government body responsible for managing and developing agricultural policy, research, and services in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
E. 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.
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: public works department of Ceylon
Triple: [Executive Committee of Communications and Works, hasAuthorityOver, public works department of Ceylon]

Generated description

The public works department of Ceylon was the colonial-era government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining the island’s infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and public buildings.

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

Target entity: public works department of Ceylon
Target entity description: The public works department of Ceylon was the colonial-era government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining the island’s infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and public buildings.

A. Ministry of Works
The Ministry of Works was a former UK government department responsible for the construction, maintenance, and preservation of public buildings and historic monuments.
B. 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.
C. Public Works Department of Singapore
The Public Works Department of Singapore was a former government agency responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining key public buildings and infrastructure across the country.
D. Department of Agriculture of Ceylon
The Department of Agriculture of Ceylon was the colonial-era government body responsible for managing and developing agricultural policy, research, and services in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
E. 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.
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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8`	completed	April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e3b2ceab608190a9c8cd339ddbea0a`	completed	April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a00b28f125481909664363904f4c031`	completed	May 10, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a00b399786c8190acbd188ab55b1fa0`	completed	May 10, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a00b46ab0608190bc59abb99842e6d4`	completed	May 10, 2026, 4:38 p.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.