Triple

T4546476
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British colonial authorities in Quebec E110058 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object Lord Durham
Lord Durham was a 19th-century British statesman best known for his influential report on the governance of British North America, which laid groundwork for Canadian self-government.
E451802 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: Lord Durham | Statement: [British colonial authorities in Quebec, notableOfficeHolder, Lord Durham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Durham
Context triple: [British colonial authorities in Quebec, notableOfficeHolder, Lord Durham]
  • A. George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
    George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, was a prominent 19th-century British Liberal statesman and colonial administrator who notably served as Viceroy of India and held several high-ranking political offices.
  • B. Sir Thomas Brisbane
    Sir Thomas Brisbane was a 19th-century Scottish soldier, colonial governor of New South Wales, and noted astronomer after whom the Australian city of Brisbane is named.
  • C. Thomas Maitland
    Thomas Maitland was a British military officer and colonial administrator, notably serving as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and Governor of Malta in the early 19th century.
  • D. Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton
    Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, was an influential early 18th-century British politician and statesman who held several high offices under the Whig government.
  • E. Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland
    Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, was a 19th-century British peer and politician prominent in Yorkshire public life and national affairs.
  • 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: Lord Durham
Triple: [British colonial authorities in Quebec, notableOfficeHolder, Lord Durham]
Generated description
Lord Durham was a 19th-century British statesman best known for his influential report on the governance of British North America, which laid groundwork for Canadian self-government.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Durham
Target entity description: Lord Durham was a 19th-century British statesman best known for his influential report on the governance of British North America, which laid groundwork for Canadian self-government.
  • A. George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
    George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, was a prominent 19th-century British Liberal statesman and colonial administrator who notably served as Viceroy of India and held several high-ranking political offices.
  • B. Sir Thomas Brisbane
    Sir Thomas Brisbane was a 19th-century Scottish soldier, colonial governor of New South Wales, and noted astronomer after whom the Australian city of Brisbane is named.
  • C. Thomas Maitland
    Thomas Maitland was a British military officer and colonial administrator, notably serving as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and Governor of Malta in the early 19th century.
  • D. Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton
    Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, was an influential early 18th-century British politician and statesman who held several high offices under the Whig government.
  • E. Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland
    Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, was a 19th-century British peer and politician prominent in Yorkshire public life and national affairs.
  • 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_69bd4412524c8190be5bcc9ddee91848 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd57d761cc8190a7c8bdef6d130b5d completed March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdb93e3c4081909348827b8b6990ab completed March 20, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdbe9f0fec8190aa42177fcd1b0f51 completed March 20, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdbf59f97c8190a7669e6459c42f16 completed March 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.