Triple

T4152374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marshal of England E89935 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent early 18th-century English nobleman and senior peer who played a leading role in court and state affairs under the later Stuart and early Hanoverian monarchs.
E447988 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: Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk | Statement: [Marshal of England, positionHeldBy, Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk
Context triple: [Marshal of England, positionHeldBy, Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk]
  • A. Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and politician who became entangled in plots surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots, ultimately leading to his execution for treason under Queen Elizabeth I.
  • B. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a powerful English nobleman and statesman of the Tudor period, prominent as a military commander and influential courtier under Henry VIII.
  • C. Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
    Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as Earl Marshal and played a key role in the restoration of his family’s titles and estates after the English Civil War.
  • D. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military commander of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a key role in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
  • E. Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
    Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent late 17th-century English nobleman and leading member of the Howard family who played a significant role in the political and ceremonial life of the Stuart court.
  • 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: Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk
Triple: [Marshal of England, positionHeldBy, Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk]
Generated description
Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent early 18th-century English nobleman and senior peer who played a leading role in court and state affairs under the later Stuart and early Hanoverian monarchs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk
Target entity description: Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent early 18th-century English nobleman and senior peer who played a leading role in court and state affairs under the later Stuart and early Hanoverian monarchs.
  • A. Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and politician who became entangled in plots surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots, ultimately leading to his execution for treason under Queen Elizabeth I.
  • B. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a powerful English nobleman and statesman of the Tudor period, prominent as a military commander and influential courtier under Henry VIII.
  • C. Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
    Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as Earl Marshal and played a key role in the restoration of his family’s titles and estates after the English Civil War.
  • D. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military commander of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a key role in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
  • E. Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
    Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent late 17th-century English nobleman and leading member of the Howard family who played a significant role in the political and ceremonial life of the Stuart court.
  • 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_69aed95a59a881909b26e70b42c6811a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0276363081908e4d17684291b547 completed March 9, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd6f783430819094df0bc715f9236d completed March 20, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd71aecafc8190b0815d0308bbcaa9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd75f39d788190b9e394050c55f44d completed March 20, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:44 p.m.