Triple

T2194500
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject EIC E49939 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Smythe
Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
E243396 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: Thomas Smythe | Statement: [EIC, foundedBy, Thomas Smythe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Smythe
Context triple: [EIC, foundedBy, Thomas Smythe]
  • A. Nicholas Bacon
    Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
  • B. Robert Cromwell
    Robert Cromwell was an English country gentleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known as the father of Oliver Cromwell, the future Lord Protector of England.
  • C. Thomas Smith
    Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
  • D. John Strangways
    John Strangways is a fictional British Secret Service agent in the James Bond series, notably appearing in Ian Fleming’s novel and the film adaptation of "Dr. No."
  • E. Christopher Hatton
    Christopher Hatton was an influential Elizabethan courtier, politician, and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I who rose to become Lord Chancellor of England.
  • 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: Thomas Smythe
Triple: [EIC, foundedBy, Thomas Smythe]
Generated description
Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Smythe
Target entity description: Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
  • A. Nicholas Bacon
    Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
  • B. Robert Cromwell
    Robert Cromwell was an English country gentleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known as the father of Oliver Cromwell, the future Lord Protector of England.
  • C. Thomas Smith
    Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
  • D. John Strangways
    John Strangways is a fictional British Secret Service agent in the James Bond series, notably appearing in Ian Fleming’s novel and the film adaptation of "Dr. No."
  • E. Christopher Hatton
    Christopher Hatton was an influential Elizabethan courtier, politician, and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I who rose to become Lord Chancellor of England.
  • 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_69a88aaba3c48190b351cab9b26989ff completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbf74147c81908793c3694894f94a completed March 7, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5db5c364819099e3db36c312437a completed March 9, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5fc9c0d08190b286f0bbd3b775e6 completed March 9, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae603a0ba88190b4bd7ff98a11d1c5 completed March 9, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.