Triple

T3816902
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Under-Secretary of State for India E84277 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object William Henry Smith
William Henry Smith was a 19th-century British Conservative politician and businessman who rose from running his family’s newsagent firm to holding several senior government posts, including roles in the War Office and Admiralty.
E390268 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 Henry Smith | Statement: [Under-Secretary of State for India, officeHeldBy, William Henry Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Smith
Context triple: [Under-Secretary of State for India, officeHeldBy, William Henry Smith]
  • A. James Smith
    James Smith was a film editor active in early American cinema, known for his work on the 1920 silent drama "Pollyanna."
  • B. Frederick Wallace Smith
    Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
  • C. Osborne Smith
    Osborne Smith was a British banker who became the inaugural Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, overseeing its early monetary and banking operations during the colonial era.
  • D. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • E. William Oldham
    William Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known for his influential indie folk and alt-country music released under the stage name Will Oldham or Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
  • 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 Henry Smith
Triple: [Under-Secretary of State for India, officeHeldBy, William Henry Smith]
Generated description
William Henry Smith was a 19th-century British Conservative politician and businessman who rose from running his family’s newsagent firm to holding several senior government posts, including roles in the War Office and Admiralty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Smith
Target entity description: William Henry Smith was a 19th-century British Conservative politician and businessman who rose from running his family’s newsagent firm to holding several senior government posts, including roles in the War Office and Admiralty.
  • A. James Smith
    James Smith was a film editor active in early American cinema, known for his work on the 1920 silent drama "Pollyanna."
  • B. Frederick Wallace Smith
    Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
  • C. Osborne Smith
    Osborne Smith was a British banker who became the inaugural Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, overseeing its early monetary and banking operations during the colonial era.
  • D. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • E. William Oldham
    William Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known for his influential indie folk and alt-country music released under the stage name Will Oldham or Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
  • 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_69aed931f5908190be2c07af66d4df25 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee8e1852c8190b61c507a7128d4c6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb43e1d481909a5b52cae5686179 completed March 14, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fcec1cf48190aa0b128acb56c089 completed March 14, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fd4d55248190bf4ef442a9991edf completed March 14, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.