Triple
T21894752
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Frederick Selous |
E540648
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Frederick Courteney Selous |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Frederick Courteney Selous | Statement: [Frederick Selous, fullName, Frederick Courteney Selous]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Courteney Selous Context triple: [Frederick Selous, fullName, Frederick Courteney Selous]
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A.
Frederick Selous
chosen
Frederick Selous was a famed British explorer, big-game hunter, and conservationist in southern Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Samuel Baker
Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
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C.
Samuel White Baker
Samuel White Baker was a 19th-century British explorer, naturalist, and abolitionist best known for his expeditions in the Nile region and the discovery of Lake Albert.
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D.
Sir Louis Cavagnari
Sir Louis Cavagnari was a British-Italian military officer and diplomat best known for his role in Anglo-Afghan relations during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, where he served as British envoy in Kabul and was killed in the 1879 uprising.
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E.
David N. Livingstone
David N. Livingstone is a Northern Irish historian and geographer known for his influential work on the historical geography of science and religion.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f11fc6062c81908bf0aad7c6b99932 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 8:59 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:07 p.m.