Triple
T3183057
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Michael Howard |
E66634
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Iain Duncan Smith (as Leader of the Opposition) |
E190555
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Iain Duncan Smith (as Leader of the Opposition) | Statement: [Michael Howard, precededBy, Iain Duncan Smith (as Leader of the Opposition)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iain Duncan Smith (as Leader of the Opposition) Context triple: [Michael Howard, precededBy, Iain Duncan Smith (as Leader of the Opposition)]
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A.
Iain Duncan Smith
chosen
Iain Duncan Smith is a British Conservative politician and former party leader who served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was a prominent advocate for Brexit.
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B.
Oliver Dowden
Oliver Dowden is a British Conservative Party politician who has held several senior UK government roles, including serving in the Cabinet.
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C.
Trevor Manuel
Trevor Manuel is a prominent South African politician and former Minister of Finance who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-apartheid economic policy.
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D.
Grant Shapps
Grant Shapps is a British Conservative politician who has held multiple senior UK government cabinet roles, including in transport, defence, and energy.
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E.
Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond is a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and previously held senior cabinet roles including Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ada6bea1788190bbce7cb52f8e72e8 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b24b777fe881909764e2f2cdb68479 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:13 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.