Triple

T4771833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales E105944 entity
Predicate defendingCommander P14510 FINISHED
Object Captain John C. Leach
Captain John C. Leach was a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the battleship HMS Prince of Wales during World War II, including its engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and its final action leading to the ship’s sinking in 1941.
 E466280 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: Captain John C. Leach | Statement: [Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, defendingCommander, Captain John C. Leach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain John C. Leach
Context triple: [Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, defendingCommander, Captain John C. Leach]
  • A. Captain John H. Miller
    Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
  • B. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • C. Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
    Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
  • D. Captain Frederick Young
    Captain Frederick Young was a British army officer of the early 19th century best known for establishing the hill station of Mussoorie in the Indian Himalayas.
  • E. Capt. Emil H. Praeger
    Capt. Emil H. Praeger was an American civil engineer and architect known for designing major sports venues and large-scale infrastructure projects in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Captain John C. Leach
Triple: [Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, defendingCommander, Captain John C. Leach]
Generated description
Captain John C. Leach was a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the battleship HMS Prince of Wales during World War II, including its engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and its final action leading to the ship’s sinking in 1941.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain John C. Leach
Target entity description: Captain John C. Leach was a Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the battleship HMS Prince of Wales during World War II, including its engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and its final action leading to the ship’s sinking in 1941.
  • A. Captain John H. Miller
    Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
  • B. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • C. Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
    Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
  • D. Captain Frederick Young
    Captain Frederick Young was a British army officer of the early 19th century best known for establishing the hill station of Mussoorie in the Indian Himalayas.
  • E. Capt. Emil H. Praeger
    Capt. Emil H. Praeger was an American civil engineer and architect known for designing major sports venues and large-scale infrastructure projects in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69bd43f226fc8190b867cc249c2a9042 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd655e5dcc8190a932be9b1baaffb2 completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a96c7288190b37f5a89a438398b completed March 21, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3af59ef88190a5acc493978d412e completed March 21, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3c8533fc8190b512d3fec34e7e28 completed March 21, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.