Triple

T2988146
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Berkshire Regiment E80677 entity
Predicate awardedVictoriaCrossTo P19685 FINISHED
Object Private Frederick Hitch
Private Frederick Hitch was a British Army soldier renowned for his extraordinary bravery during the Battle of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu War, for which he received the Victoria Cross.
E315988 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Private Frederick Hitch | Statement: [Royal Berkshire Regiment, awardedVictoriaCrossTo, Private Frederick Hitch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Private Frederick Hitch
Context triple: [Royal Berkshire Regiment, awardedVictoriaCrossTo, Private Frederick Hitch]
  • A. Frederick Sykes
    Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
  • B. Sergeant Fry
    Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • C. Thomas Knowlton
    Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Lieutenant Vernon
    Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • E. Thomas Troubridge
    Thomas Troubridge was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his close association with Admiral Nelson and his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • 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: Private Frederick Hitch
Triple: [Royal Berkshire Regiment, awardedVictoriaCrossTo, Private Frederick Hitch]
Generated description
Private Frederick Hitch was a British Army soldier renowned for his extraordinary bravery during the Battle of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu War, for which he received the Victoria Cross.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Private Frederick Hitch
Target entity description: Private Frederick Hitch was a British Army soldier renowned for his extraordinary bravery during the Battle of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu War, for which he received the Victoria Cross.
  • A. Frederick Sykes
    Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
  • B. Sergeant Fry
    Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • C. Thomas Knowlton
    Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Lieutenant Vernon
    Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • E. Thomas Troubridge
    Thomas Troubridge was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his close association with Admiral Nelson and his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: awardedVictoriaCrossTo
Context triple: [Royal Berkshire Regiment, awardedVictoriaCrossTo, Private Frederick Hitch]
  • A. confersKnighthood
    Indicates that one entity formally grants the status or title of knighthood to another entity.
  • B. wartimeAward
    Indicates that an entity received an award or honor specifically in the context of wartime or military conflict.
  • C. militaryAward chosen
    Indicates that an entity has received or been granted a specific military honor, decoration, or award.
  • D. isOrderOfKnighthood
    Indicates that an entity is a formal chivalric or knightly order to which individuals can be admitted.
  • E. commemoratedPerson
    Indicates that the subject serves as a memorial or tribute to the referenced person.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ad8b16c3488190b47b6aa7a59a335b completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad99c9cdd081908fa8094a3ac1f8d3 completed March 8, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b108fe2568819083a8f97b37dc8340 completed March 11, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b10b8230b08190b9b572a81b3cf094 completed March 11, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10bc9d6648190bfb161bc7699926e completed March 11, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ad961403108190bbecb8d3608fd4e0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.