Triple

T2635292
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Order of the Crescent E59730 entity
Predicate recipient P108 FINISHED
Object Alexander Ball
Alexander Ball was a British Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars.
E283403 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: Alexander Ball | Statement: [Order of the Crescent, recipient, Alexander Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Ball
Context triple: [Order of the Crescent, recipient, Alexander Ball]
  • A. Alexander Macmillan
    Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
  • B. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • C. James Johnstone
    James Johnstone was a British newspaper proprietor best known for establishing the London daily newspaper that became the Evening Standard.
  • D. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • E. Ian Hamilton
    Ian Hamilton was a British Army general best known for leading the ill-fated Allied campaign at Gallipoli during World War I.
  • 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: Alexander Ball
Triple: [Order of the Crescent, recipient, Alexander Ball]
Generated description
Alexander Ball was a British Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Ball
Target entity description: Alexander Ball was a British Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • A. Alexander Macmillan
    Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
  • B. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • C. James Johnstone
    James Johnstone was a British newspaper proprietor best known for establishing the London daily newspaper that became the Evening Standard.
  • D. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • E. Ian Hamilton
    Ian Hamilton was a British Army general best known for leading the ill-fated Allied campaign at Gallipoli during World War I.
  • 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_69ab4ac8596c8190b34997e73d9e991c completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8e085b0819089db4103c0d8cd9b completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af90ac94d48190b3138abac9934ec8 completed March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af91625bd481908d3666af3cd3733f completed March 10, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af91f9e1208190aa149c9afc84911c completed March 10, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.