Triple

T3177141
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor of Bombay E66490 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
E419128 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 Elphinstone | Statement: [Governor of Bombay, positionHeldBy, William Elphinstone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Elphinstone
Context triple: [Governor of Bombay, positionHeldBy, William Elphinstone]
  • A. William Elphinstone
    William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
  • B. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a Scottish nobleman best known for his central role in the protracted Douglas inheritance dispute, which became one of 18th-century Scotland’s most famous legal cases.
  • C. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader who served as Guardian of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • D. John Stewart, Earl of Mar
    John Stewart, Earl of Mar, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman and royal prince, notable as a younger son of King James II of Scotland and a member of the influential Stewart dynasty.
  • E. John Erskine, Earl of Mar
    John Erskine, Earl of Mar, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician best known for initiating and commanding the Jacobite rising of 1715 in an effort to restore the Stuart monarchy.
  • 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 Elphinstone
Triple: [Governor of Bombay, positionHeldBy, William Elphinstone]
Generated description
William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Elphinstone
Target entity description: William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
  • A. William Elphinstone
    William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
  • B. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a Scottish nobleman best known for his central role in the protracted Douglas inheritance dispute, which became one of 18th-century Scotland’s most famous legal cases.
  • C. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader who served as Guardian of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • D. John Stewart, Earl of Mar
    John Stewart, Earl of Mar, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman and royal prince, notable as a younger son of King James II of Scotland and a member of the influential Stewart dynasty.
  • E. John Erskine, Earl of Mar
    John Erskine, Earl of Mar, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician best known for initiating and commanding the Jacobite rising of 1715 in an effort to restore the Stuart monarchy.
  • 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_69ad8586a34c8190944c63ec11a8de1a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada69c2edc81908bfd23a1d5ce970e completed March 8, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b589aa20688190a74a65b0563c3938 completed March 14, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58aa95428819085048691c77e2aea completed March 14, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58b34c4e881909fd44fbe8acedda4 completed March 14, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.