Triple

T3010448
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject English forces under Richard Nicolls E82204 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Richard Nicolls
Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
E317602 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: Richard Nicolls | Statement: [English forces under Richard Nicolls, commander, Richard Nicolls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Nicolls
Context triple: [English forces under Richard Nicolls, commander, Richard Nicolls]
  • A. Samuel Nicholas
    Samuel Nicholas was a Continental Marine officer who is traditionally recognized as the first leader of what would become the United States Marine Corps during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Sir James Thornton
    Sir James Thornton was an architect known for his work on the historic English country house Belvoir Castle.
  • C. John Byng
    John Byng was an 18th-century British Royal Navy admiral best known for his controversial court-martial and execution after the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
  • D. Sir John Parker
    Sir John Parker is a prominent British industrialist and business leader known for his extensive career chairing major engineering and shipbuilding companies and influencing UK corporate governance.
  • E. Richard Bellingham
    Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 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: Richard Nicolls
Triple: [English forces under Richard Nicolls, commander, Richard Nicolls]
Generated description
Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Nicolls
Target entity description: Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
  • A. Samuel Nicholas
    Samuel Nicholas was a Continental Marine officer who is traditionally recognized as the first leader of what would become the United States Marine Corps during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Sir James Thornton
    Sir James Thornton was an architect known for his work on the historic English country house Belvoir Castle.
  • C. John Byng
    John Byng was an 18th-century British Royal Navy admiral best known for his controversial court-martial and execution after the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
  • D. Sir John Parker
    Sir John Parker is a prominent British industrialist and business leader known for his extensive career chairing major engineering and shipbuilding companies and influencing UK corporate governance.
  • E. Richard Bellingham
    Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a4ccbf08190a7580c9e758804d0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e6410e481909753bef34e053363 completed March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b12f324fdc8190a279a773ef32ed01 completed March 11, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1c641f3308190912252e5d5e4f843 completed March 11, 2026, 7:45 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.