Triple

T2816621
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Trigonometrical Survey of India E54302 entity
Predicate chiefSurveyor P43489 FINISHED
Object William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
E300814 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: William Lambton | Statement: [Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, chiefSurveyor, William Lambton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lambton
Context triple: [Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, chiefSurveyor, William Lambton]
  • A. Richard Laxton
    Richard Laxton is a British film and television director known for his work on dramas such as the period film "Effie Gray."
  • B. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • C. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • D. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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: William Lambton
Triple: [Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, chiefSurveyor, William Lambton]
Generated description
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lambton
Target entity description: William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
  • A. Richard Laxton
    Richard Laxton is a British film and television director known for his work on dramas such as the period film "Effie Gray."
  • B. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • C. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • D. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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_69ab49de0af08190b3da69683be1e728 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe08ae5048190a0a3b573d9a5fdbc completed March 7, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afcea2386481908e062280eb5b07db completed March 10, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afcf12e3a0819098f28d31434a0c5f completed March 10, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afcf9c2d308190b111aa8038c9227a completed March 10, 2026, 8 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:59 p.m.