Triple

T4970767
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch Mauritius E111641 entity
Predicate governor P537 FINISHED
Object Jacob van der Meersch
Jacob van der Meersch was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as governor of the Dutch settlement on Mauritius in the 17th century.
E518176 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: Jacob van der Meersch | Statement: [Dutch Mauritius, governor, Jacob van der Meersch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob van der Meersch
Context triple: [Dutch Mauritius, governor, Jacob van der Meersch]
  • A. Pieter van Reigersberch
    Pieter van Reigersberch was a Dutch regent and statesman from Middelburg, best known as the father of Maria van Reigersberch, the wife of jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius.
  • B. Dirck van Bleyswijck
    Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
  • C. Jan de Lannoy
    Jan de Lannoy was a Flemish-born ancestor of early New World settler Philip Delano, associated with the Huguenot and Walloon migrations that contributed to the founding populations of colonial America.
  • D. Willem van Aelst
    Willem van Aelst was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his refined still lifes, particularly of flowers, game, and luxurious objects.
  • E. Pieter van den Keere
    Pieter van den Keere was a Flemish engraver and cartographer of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his detailed maps and atlases produced in the Dutch Golden Age of cartography.
  • 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: Jacob van der Meersch
Triple: [Dutch Mauritius, governor, Jacob van der Meersch]
Generated description
Jacob van der Meersch was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as governor of the Dutch settlement on Mauritius in the 17th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob van der Meersch
Target entity description: Jacob van der Meersch was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as governor of the Dutch settlement on Mauritius in the 17th century.
  • A. Pieter van Reigersberch
    Pieter van Reigersberch was a Dutch regent and statesman from Middelburg, best known as the father of Maria van Reigersberch, the wife of jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius.
  • B. Dirck van Bleyswijck
    Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
  • C. Jan de Lannoy
    Jan de Lannoy was a Flemish-born ancestor of early New World settler Philip Delano, associated with the Huguenot and Walloon migrations that contributed to the founding populations of colonial America.
  • D. Willem van Aelst
    Willem van Aelst was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his refined still lifes, particularly of flowers, game, and luxurious objects.
  • E. Pieter van den Keere
    Pieter van den Keere was a Flemish engraver and cartographer of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his detailed maps and atlases produced in the Dutch Golden Age of cartography.
  • 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_69bd441a0eb481908050fa4273b19eae completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7213bf0081909b3c496f1804dc4c completed March 20, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3a8192848190aa2413b9517f18d8 completed March 22, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3b3a651c81908dc3a4ca76e0699d completed March 22, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3b9a2f78819093ab11fddaed71c3 completed March 22, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:33 p.m.