Triple
T3181497
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Guards Armoured Division |
E66596
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Major-General Allan Adair
Major-General Allan Adair was a senior British Army officer and distinguished World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
|
E333245
|
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: Major-General Allan Adair | Statement: [Guards Armoured Division, commander, Major-General Allan Adair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Allan Adair Context triple: [Guards Armoured Division, commander, Major-General Allan Adair]
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A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
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B.
Major-General George Erskine
Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
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C.
Major-General John Harding
Major-General John Harding was a senior British Army officer and later Field Marshal who gained prominence commanding armoured formations in the Second World War and subsequently serving as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Governor of Cyprus.
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D.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford was a British Army officer and Royal Engineers commander in the Anglo-Zulu War, best known for his controversial role and death at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.
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E.
Major-General Sidney Kirkman
Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
- 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: Major-General Allan Adair Triple: [Guards Armoured Division, commander, Major-General Allan Adair]
Generated description
Major-General Allan Adair was a senior British Army officer and distinguished World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Allan Adair Target entity description: Major-General Allan Adair was a senior British Army officer and distinguished World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
-
A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
-
B.
Major-General George Erskine
Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
-
C.
Major-General John Harding
Major-General John Harding was a senior British Army officer and later Field Marshal who gained prominence commanding armoured formations in the Second World War and subsequently serving as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Governor of Cyprus.
-
D.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford was a British Army officer and Royal Engineers commander in the Anglo-Zulu War, best known for his controversial role and death at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.
-
E.
Major-General Sidney Kirkman
Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
- 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_69ad8587c1bc8190a2595f2c22ee1001 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ada6a1280c8190b59a2afd30312c02 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b235fd1688819080fa1d73d2b233ba |
completed | March 12, 2026, 3:41 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b236e61ae88190a76b942c6cddff41 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 3:45 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b23770ed4c8190b5d929cc95a286a0 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 3:48 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.