Triple
T18169960
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Bowring |
E434997
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Consul at Canton |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: British Consul at Canton | Statement: [John Bowring, positionHeld, British Consul at Canton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Consul at Canton Context triple: [John Bowring, positionHeld, British Consul at Canton]
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A.
High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East
The High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East was a senior British diplomatic post empowered to negotiate and enforce imperial policy and treaties across East Asia in the mid-19th century.
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B.
United States Consul in Liverpool
The United States Consul in Liverpool was a key 19th-century diplomatic and commercial post representing American interests in the major British port city of Liverpool.
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C.
Robert Hart
Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
British Commissioner
The British Commissioner was the chief colonial official responsible for administering the leased territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the United Kingdom.
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E.
British consul Henry Salt
British consul Henry Salt was an English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist best known for his role in acquiring major collections of Egyptian antiquities for the British Museum in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Consul at Canton Target entity description: The British Consul at Canton was the chief diplomatic and commercial representative of the United Kingdom in the Chinese port city of Canton (Guangzhou) during the 19th century, overseeing British interests and relations there.
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A.
High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East
The High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East was a senior British diplomatic post empowered to negotiate and enforce imperial policy and treaties across East Asia in the mid-19th century.
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B.
United States Consul in Liverpool
The United States Consul in Liverpool was a key 19th-century diplomatic and commercial post representing American interests in the major British port city of Liverpool.
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C.
Robert Hart
Robert Hart was a prominent British diplomat and inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime Customs Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
British Commissioner
The British Commissioner was the chief colonial official responsible for administering the leased territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the United Kingdom.
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E.
British consul Henry Salt
British consul Henry Salt was an English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist best known for his role in acquiring major collections of Egyptian antiquities for the British Museum in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90b7a188190b3fc7b8d4a6cd20a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4df555af081908a2f12bce6a13f56 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.