Triple

T1730514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dudley Senanayake E37798 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Fredrick de Silva
Fredrick de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Mayor of Kandy and later as Ceylon’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
E194982 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: Fredrick de Silva | Statement: [Dudley Senanayake, relative, Fredrick de Silva]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fredrick de Silva
Context triple: [Dudley Senanayake, relative, Fredrick de Silva]
  • A. Charles V. Hamilton
    Charles V. Hamilton was an American political scientist and civil rights scholar best known for co-authoring the influential book "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation" with Stokely Carmichael.
  • B. James Franciscus
    James Franciscus was an American actor best known for his leading roles in 1960s and 1970s film and television, including the series "Mr. Novak" and "Longstreet."
  • C. Edward Leister
    Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • D. Earl Cornwallis
    Earl Cornwallis is the noble title held by Charles Cornwallis, the British general best known for his role in the American Revolutionary War and his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
  • E. Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons was a prominent Irish-American art director and production designer at MGM, renowned for shaping the visual style of classic Hollywood films and for designing the Oscar statuette.
  • 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: Fredrick de Silva
Triple: [Dudley Senanayake, relative, Fredrick de Silva]
Generated description
Fredrick de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Mayor of Kandy and later as Ceylon’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fredrick de Silva
Target entity description: Fredrick de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Mayor of Kandy and later as Ceylon’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
  • A. Charles V. Hamilton
    Charles V. Hamilton was an American political scientist and civil rights scholar best known for co-authoring the influential book "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation" with Stokely Carmichael.
  • B. James Franciscus
    James Franciscus was an American actor best known for his leading roles in 1960s and 1970s film and television, including the series "Mr. Novak" and "Longstreet."
  • C. Edward Leister
    Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • D. Earl Cornwallis
    Earl Cornwallis is the noble title held by Charles Cornwallis, the British general best known for his role in the American Revolutionary War and his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
  • E. Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons was a prominent Irish-American art director and production designer at MGM, renowned for shaping the visual style of classic Hollywood films and for designing the Oscar statuette.
  • 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_69a8861cc6ac8190ac0b2e31ccf62851 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa637f202c8190b46a31bef51465c8 completed March 6, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8af9c15c8190818a891f5eae6569 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957ce41881909f1e214ebf4b08a4 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97b479bc81908b5f75b5df41f577 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.