Triple
T22854325
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British capture of St. Eustatius |
E566437
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Major-General John Vaughan |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Major-General John Vaughan | Statement: [British capture of St. Eustatius, commander, Major-General John Vaughan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General John Vaughan Context triple: [British capture of St. Eustatius, commander, Major-General John Vaughan]
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A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
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B.
Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
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C.
Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
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D.
Major-General Rupert Smith
Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
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E.
Major General Harold Barrowclough
Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General John Vaughan Target entity description: Major-General John Vaughan was a British Army officer and colonial commander active during the American Revolutionary War, noted for leading key Caribbean operations against Dutch and French possessions.
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A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
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B.
Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
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C.
Major General Thomas Wynford Rees
Major General Thomas Wynford Rees was a British Indian Army officer best known for his leadership of Indian forces in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
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D.
Major-General Rupert Smith
Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
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E.
Major General Harold Barrowclough
Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e2458750b481908a8e4cf4609cc6cf |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f17ebb4ea48190b4b865e316f6a75f |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:44 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:37 p.m.