Triple

T1971250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Thomas Clifford E42803 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Hugh Clifford
Hugh Clifford was a British colonial administrator and writer who served as governor in several territories of the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E231209 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: Hugh Clifford | Statement: [Sir Thomas Clifford, father, Hugh Clifford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Clifford
Context triple: [Sir Thomas Clifford, father, Hugh Clifford]
  • A. Hugh Wheeler
    Hugh Wheeler was a British Army officer best known for his controversial leadership and death during the 1857 Indian Rebellion at Cawnpore.
  • B. Thomas W. Knox
    Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
  • C. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. George F. Meacham
    George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
  • E. Thomas Marshall
    Thomas Marshall was an American lawyer, landowner, and politician in colonial Virginia, best known as the father of future Chief Justice John Marshall.
  • 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: Hugh Clifford
Triple: [Sir Thomas Clifford, father, Hugh Clifford]
Generated description
Hugh Clifford was a British colonial administrator and writer who served as governor in several territories of the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Clifford
Target entity description: Hugh Clifford was a British colonial administrator and writer who served as governor in several territories of the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Hugh Wheeler
    Hugh Wheeler was a British Army officer best known for his controversial leadership and death during the 1857 Indian Rebellion at Cawnpore.
  • B. Thomas W. Knox
    Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
  • C. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. George F. Meacham
    George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
  • E. Thomas Marshall
    Thomas Marshall was an American lawyer, landowner, and politician in colonial Virginia, best known as the father of future Chief Justice John Marshall.
  • 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_69a8871289048190b00b0d7744b7b2b1 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3d2836c8190a35cb6d8e2dd4bdf completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae2702954c8190b95de378e263574a completed March 9, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae27b2c9d08190b1950abd8d41d3b3 completed March 9, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2817ce3c81908e48170760cf98ef completed March 9, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.