Triple

T1961518
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject High Commissioner for Southern Africa E42596 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object The Viscount Buxton
The Viscount Buxton was a British Liberal politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of South Africa in the early 20th century.
E221772 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: The Viscount Buxton | Statement: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, notableOfficeHolder, The Viscount Buxton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Viscount Buxton
Context triple: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, notableOfficeHolder, The Viscount Buxton]
  • A. The Earl of Selborne
    The Earl of Selborne was a British aristocrat and colonial administrator best known for his senior role in governing parts of the British Empire in the early 20th century.
  • B. Lord Chiltern
    Lord Chiltern is a hot-tempered, impulsive aristocrat in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, best known for his turbulent personal life and political entanglements.
  • C. Viscount St Alban
    Viscount St Alban is the English noble title held by Francis Bacon, the influential Renaissance philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method.
  • D. Viscount Norwich
    Viscount Norwich is a British hereditary peerage title in the United Kingdom, created in the mid-20th century for the politician and diplomat Duff Cooper.
  • E. Viscount Templewood
    Viscount Templewood is the noble title held by British Conservative politician Samuel Hoare, a prominent statesman during the interwar and Second World War periods.
  • 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: The Viscount Buxton
Triple: [High Commissioner for Southern Africa, notableOfficeHolder, The Viscount Buxton]
Generated description
The Viscount Buxton was a British Liberal politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of South Africa in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Viscount Buxton
Target entity description: The Viscount Buxton was a British Liberal politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of South Africa in the early 20th century.
  • A. The Earl of Selborne
    The Earl of Selborne was a British aristocrat and colonial administrator best known for his senior role in governing parts of the British Empire in the early 20th century.
  • B. Lord Chiltern
    Lord Chiltern is a hot-tempered, impulsive aristocrat in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, best known for his turbulent personal life and political entanglements.
  • C. Viscount St Alban
    Viscount St Alban is the English noble title held by Francis Bacon, the influential Renaissance philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method.
  • D. Viscount Norwich
    Viscount Norwich is a British hereditary peerage title in the United Kingdom, created in the mid-20th century for the politician and diplomat Duff Cooper.
  • E. Viscount Templewood
    Viscount Templewood is the noble title held by British Conservative politician Samuel Hoare, a prominent statesman during the interwar and Second World War periods.
  • 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_69a88711151c8190940b2572095059d7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3aae8c48190afae2cf3af2ae4e9 completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae031ef4e48190af93dfd6f33184d3 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0386785c8190ae74e5f04a4809fc completed March 8, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae042728f48190850848116a371794 completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.