Triple

T4023146
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor of the Straits Settlements E91324 entity
Predicate establishedUnder P3647 FINISHED
Object Letters patent
Letters patent are formal legal instruments issued by a monarch or government granting rights, offices, or status, typically made public and sealed with an official seal.
E406855 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: Letters patent | Statement: [Governor of the Straits Settlements, establishedUnder, Letters patent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters patent
Context triple: [Governor of the Straits Settlements, establishedUnder, Letters patent]
  • A. Letters Patent, 1947
    The Letters Patent, 1947 are a constitutional instrument issued by King George VI that modernized and redefined the office and powers of the Governor General of Canada, effectively transferring many of the monarch’s duties in Canada to the Governor General.
  • B. Parliamentary Patent of 1643–1644
    The Parliamentary Patent of 1643–1644 was an early colonial governing charter that organized the New England colonies under parliamentary authority before later royal charters redefined their political structure.
  • C. Letters Patent of 1787
    The Letters Patent of 1787 were a formal legal instrument issued by the British Crown that established the boundaries and governance framework of the Colony of New South Wales in Australia.
  • D. Neale’s Patent for North American postal services
    Neale’s Patent for North American postal services was a late 17th-century English crown grant that gave Thomas Neale the exclusive right to establish and operate a centralized postal system across the North American colonies.
  • E. Patent of Toleration (1781)
    The Patent of Toleration (1781) was an edict by Emperor Joseph II that granted limited religious freedom and civil rights to non-Catholic Christians within the Habsburg 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: Letters patent
Triple: [Governor of the Straits Settlements, establishedUnder, Letters patent]
Generated description
Letters patent are formal legal instruments issued by a monarch or government granting rights, offices, or status, typically made public and sealed with an official seal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters patent
Target entity description: Letters patent are formal legal instruments issued by a monarch or government granting rights, offices, or status, typically made public and sealed with an official seal.
  • A. Letters Patent, 1947
    The Letters Patent, 1947 are a constitutional instrument issued by King George VI that modernized and redefined the office and powers of the Governor General of Canada, effectively transferring many of the monarch’s duties in Canada to the Governor General.
  • B. Parliamentary Patent of 1643–1644
    The Parliamentary Patent of 1643–1644 was an early colonial governing charter that organized the New England colonies under parliamentary authority before later royal charters redefined their political structure.
  • C. Letters Patent of 1787
    The Letters Patent of 1787 were a formal legal instrument issued by the British Crown that established the boundaries and governance framework of the Colony of New South Wales in Australia.
  • D. Neale’s Patent for North American postal services
    Neale’s Patent for North American postal services was a late 17th-century English crown grant that gave Thomas Neale the exclusive right to establish and operate a centralized postal system across the North American colonies.
  • E. Patent of Toleration (1781)
    The Patent of Toleration (1781) was an edict by Emperor Joseph II that granted limited religious freedom and civil rights to non-Catholic Christians within the Habsburg 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_69aed9618b04819081750d979d2af098 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeface7a788190a0e4e549a6816f91 completed March 9, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54c82a33881908eb1b53331b10791 completed March 14, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54d41fa008190972411203c8a07f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54deeeac881909cc951927e51111f completed March 14, 2026, noon
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:35 p.m.