Triple

T1980957
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Port Royal (1710) E43023 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Francis Nicholson
Francis Nicholson was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as governor in several American colonies and led key campaigns during the early 18th-century imperial conflicts in North America.
E221925 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: Francis Nicholson | Statement: [Siege of Port Royal (1710), commander, Francis Nicholson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Nicholson
Context triple: [Siege of Port Royal (1710), commander, Francis Nicholson]
  • A. Samuel Dudley
    Samuel Dudley was a colonial-era New England clergyman and the son of Massachusetts Bay Colony governor Thomas Dudley.
  • B. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • C. Thomas Button
    Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • D. Sir Edmund Andros
    Sir Edmund Andros was a 17th-century English colonial administrator best known for his unpopular, authoritarian rule over several North American colonies under royal appointment.
  • E. Thomas Smith
    Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
  • 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: Francis Nicholson
Triple: [Siege of Port Royal (1710), commander, Francis Nicholson]
Generated description
Francis Nicholson was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as governor in several American colonies and led key campaigns during the early 18th-century imperial conflicts in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Nicholson
Target entity description: Francis Nicholson was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as governor in several American colonies and led key campaigns during the early 18th-century imperial conflicts in North America.
  • A. Samuel Dudley
    Samuel Dudley was a colonial-era New England clergyman and the son of Massachusetts Bay Colony governor Thomas Dudley.
  • B. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • C. Thomas Button
    Thomas Button was a 17th-century Welsh naval officer and explorer noted for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • D. Sir Edmund Andros
    Sir Edmund Andros was a 17th-century English colonial administrator best known for his unpopular, authoritarian rule over several North American colonies under royal appointment.
  • E. Thomas Smith
    Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
  • 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_69a88713ddc88190a969715658ebe7a8 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb81ddddc819099acc2740de0b236 completed March 7, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae032bc30c8190a136a634580571d9 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae039a7c948190b8b4b4c2045007d3 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, 7:37 p.m.