Triple

T4631749
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Timor (1942) E101431 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Major Alexander Spence
Major Alexander Spence was an Australian Army officer who led commando operations during World War II, particularly noted for his leadership in the Timor campaign against Japanese forces.
E456576 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: Major Alexander Spence | Statement: [Battle of Timor (1942), notableCommander, Major Alexander Spence]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Alexander Spence
Context triple: [Battle of Timor (1942), notableCommander, Major Alexander Spence]
  • A. Major William Mounsey
    Major William Mounsey was a 19th-century British army officer and antiquarian known for his interest in ancient monuments and inscriptions.
  • B. Major William Radcliff
    Major William Radcliff was a U.S. Army officer after whom the city of Radcliff, Kentucky, was named in recognition of his service.
  • C. Major Philip Kirby
    Major Philip Kirby is the charming yet unsuspecting Army officer who becomes the romantic lead opposite Ginger Rogers’ disguised heroine in the classic 1942 screwball comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
  • D. Major Henry Douglas Warden
    Major Henry Douglas Warden was a 19th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the city of Bloemfontein in present-day South Africa.
  • E. Major Henry West
    Major Henry West is a British Army officer and the primary human antagonist in the post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later," known for his ruthless and morally corrupt survival tactics.
  • 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: Major Alexander Spence
Triple: [Battle of Timor (1942), notableCommander, Major Alexander Spence]
Generated description
Major Alexander Spence was an Australian Army officer who led commando operations during World War II, particularly noted for his leadership in the Timor campaign against Japanese forces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Alexander Spence
Target entity description: Major Alexander Spence was an Australian Army officer who led commando operations during World War II, particularly noted for his leadership in the Timor campaign against Japanese forces.
  • A. Major William Mounsey
    Major William Mounsey was a 19th-century British army officer and antiquarian known for his interest in ancient monuments and inscriptions.
  • B. Major William Radcliff
    Major William Radcliff was a U.S. Army officer after whom the city of Radcliff, Kentucky, was named in recognition of his service.
  • C. Major Philip Kirby
    Major Philip Kirby is the charming yet unsuspecting Army officer who becomes the romantic lead opposite Ginger Rogers’ disguised heroine in the classic 1942 screwball comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
  • D. Major Henry Douglas Warden
    Major Henry Douglas Warden was a 19th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the city of Bloemfontein in present-day South Africa.
  • E. Major Henry West
    Major Henry West is a British Army officer and the primary human antagonist in the post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later," known for his ruthless and morally corrupt survival tactics.
  • 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_69bd43d2f1c081908cd4b7ec48ecc73d completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a32d6408190962e60b9bce7560d completed March 20, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfabeba3c8190b6515b99746f62a6 completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb70b9d48190a32c5cc753c45aab completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc54e194819080b1eb5b9f0dfe9e completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.