Triple

T4326788
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clerk of the Acts E96651 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith was an English civil servant and administrator known for his role in managing naval and governmental affairs in the early modern period.
 E431054 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 Smith | Statement: [Clerk of the Acts, officeHeldBy, Thomas Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Smith
Context triple: [Clerk of the Acts, officeHeldBy, Thomas Smith]
  • A. Thomas Smith
    Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
  • B. John Scott
    John Scott is a British composer and conductor known for his prolific work on film and television scores.
  • C. John Scott
    John Scott was a notable historical figure whose legacy is honored through the John Scott Medal, an award recognizing significant contributions to science and the useful arts.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. Thomas Smythe
    Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [Clerk of the Acts, officeHeldBy, Thomas Smith]
Generated description
Thomas Smith was an English civil servant and administrator known for his role in managing naval and governmental affairs in the early modern period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Smith
Target entity description: Thomas Smith was an English civil servant and administrator known for his role in managing naval and governmental affairs in the early modern period.
  • A. Thomas Smith
    Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
  • B. John Scott
    John Scott is a British composer and conductor known for his prolific work on film and television scores.
  • C. John Scott
    John Scott was a notable historical figure whose legacy is honored through the John Scott Medal, an award recognizing significant contributions to science and the useful arts.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. Thomas Smythe
    Thomas Smythe was an English merchant and royal official best known as a key early organizer and financial backer of the English East India Company.
  • 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_69b34542fd908190b11b08faad8decfd completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3513020f481909ff2fec3934f3002 completed March 12, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5d09861a4819086a88bb42a8ea2e4 completed March 14, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5d11a30a08190b9f58fadd2415559 completed March 14, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5d194975481908b029ab106223c6c completed March 14, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:13 p.m.