Triple
T2227463
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Virginia Company of London |
E48684
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLeader |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sir Thomas Smythe |
E243396
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Sir Thomas Smythe | Statement: [Virginia Company of London, notableLeader, Sir Thomas Smythe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Smythe Context triple: [Virginia Company of London, notableLeader, Sir Thomas Smythe]
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A.
Thomas Smythe
chosen
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.
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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.
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C.
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.
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D.
Charles Townshend
Charles Townshend was an 18th-century British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer best known for initiating the Townshend Acts that taxed the American colonies and helped spark the American Revolution.
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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.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88aa51b388190949868ec9766e587 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc0670ce48190b98814064bff0517 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae6565513081908b1117d16c375aec |
completed | March 9, 2026, 6:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.