Triple

T2368412
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Hobson E46034 entity
Predicate servedIn P253 FINISHED
Object East Indies station
The East Indies Station was a major command of the British Royal Navy responsible for naval operations and protection of British interests across the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions.
E261103 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: East Indies station | Statement: [William Hobson, servedIn, East Indies station]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East Indies station
Context triple: [William Hobson, servedIn, East Indies station]
  • A. East Indies
    The East Indies is a historical term for the lands of South and Southeast Asia, especially the Indian subcontinent and the Malay Archipelago, that were central to European spice trade and colonial expansion.
  • B. Straits Settlements
    The Straits Settlements were a group of British colonial territories in Southeast Asia, including key trading ports such as Singapore, Penang, and Malacca.
  • C. Dutch East Indies
    The Dutch East Indies was a vast Dutch colonial territory in Southeast Asia that largely corresponds to present-day Indonesia and played a central role in global spice and trade networks.
  • D. Dutch Coromandel
    Dutch Coromandel was a coastal colonial possession of the Dutch in southeastern India, centered on trade in textiles and other goods along the Coromandel Coast.
  • E. Bencoolen
    Bencoolen is a historic British colonial settlement on the west coast of Sumatra, now known as Bengkulu, that served as an important outpost in early 19th-century Southeast Asia.
  • 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: East Indies station
Triple: [William Hobson, servedIn, East Indies station]
Generated description
The East Indies Station was a major command of the British Royal Navy responsible for naval operations and protection of British interests across the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East Indies station
Target entity description: The East Indies Station was a major command of the British Royal Navy responsible for naval operations and protection of British interests across the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions.
  • A. East Indies
    The East Indies is a historical term for the lands of South and Southeast Asia, especially the Indian subcontinent and the Malay Archipelago, that were central to European spice trade and colonial expansion.
  • B. Straits Settlements
    The Straits Settlements were a group of British colonial territories in Southeast Asia, including key trading ports such as Singapore, Penang, and Malacca.
  • C. Dutch East Indies
    The Dutch East Indies was a vast Dutch colonial territory in Southeast Asia that largely corresponds to present-day Indonesia and played a central role in global spice and trade networks.
  • D. Dutch Coromandel
    Dutch Coromandel was a coastal colonial possession of the Dutch in southeastern India, centered on trade in textiles and other goods along the Coromandel Coast.
  • E. Bencoolen
    Bencoolen is a historic British colonial settlement on the west coast of Sumatra, now known as Bengkulu, that served as an important outpost in early 19th-century Southeast Asia.
  • 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_69a88a145268819083e2736cb835c696 completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc76bf75c8190b014c3dbfc46bba3 completed March 7, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea89eb46481909cc01202839d417f completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeac2435e88190ae38a1a4d20c4872 completed March 9, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeaca11b008190b34397bdf7aa0669 completed March 9, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:56 p.m.