Triple

T4194697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Portal E89116 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Cyril Newall
Cyril Newall was a senior Royal Air Force commander who served as Chief of the Air Staff at the outset of the Second World War and later became Governor-General of New Zealand.
 E444785 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: Cyril Newall | Statement: [Charles Portal, precededBy, Cyril Newall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cyril Newall
Context triple: [Charles Portal, precededBy, Cyril Newall]
  • A. Robert Hichens
    Robert Hichens was a British novelist and short story writer known for his psychological thrillers and society novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Ternouth
    John Ternouth was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the bronze reliefs that adorn Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
  • C. John Worsfold
    John Worsfold is a former Australian rules footballer and premiership-winning coach best known for leading the West Coast Eagles in the AFL.
  • D. Ernst Robinson
    Ernst Robinson is one of the adventurous sons in the classic family castaway story "Swiss Family Robinson," portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful young man.
  • E. Charles Askowith
    Charles Askowith was the designer responsible for creating the modern flag of Israel.
  • 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: Cyril Newall
Triple: [Charles Portal, precededBy, Cyril Newall]
Generated description
Cyril Newall was a senior Royal Air Force commander who served as Chief of the Air Staff at the outset of the Second World War and later became Governor-General of New Zealand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cyril Newall
Target entity description: Cyril Newall was a senior Royal Air Force commander who served as Chief of the Air Staff at the outset of the Second World War and later became Governor-General of New Zealand.
  • A. Robert Hichens
    Robert Hichens was a British novelist and short story writer known for his psychological thrillers and society novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Ternouth
    John Ternouth was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the bronze reliefs that adorn Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
  • C. John Worsfold
    John Worsfold is a former Australian rules footballer and premiership-winning coach best known for leading the West Coast Eagles in the AFL.
  • D. Ernst Robinson
    Ernst Robinson is one of the adventurous sons in the classic family castaway story "Swiss Family Robinson," portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful young man.
  • E. Charles Askowith
    Charles Askowith was the designer responsible for creating the modern flag of Israel.
  • 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_69aed9569a4481908b6c1fcec2a11e21 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af034406348190a56c21b5c08a6828 completed March 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b66b25d00481909eaf22c7c797c3f1 completed March 15, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b66d352b448190b17aebe31fd7d765 completed March 15, 2026, 8:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b66d817940819083028a48198d8fbb completed March 15, 2026, 8:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.