Triple

T5236723
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harcourt Butler Technical University E118237 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler
Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler was a British colonial administrator who served in high-ranking positions in British India, including as Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and later as Governor of Burma.
E504499 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: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler | Statement: [Harcourt Butler Technical University, namedAfter, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler
Context triple: [Harcourt Butler Technical University, namedAfter, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler]
  • A. Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly
    Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly is a central character in T.S. Eliot’s play "The Cocktail Party," serving as a psychiatrist whose probing insights drive the drama’s exploration of personal crisis and spiritual renewal.
  • B. Sir Charles William Somerset Marling
    Sir Charles William Somerset Marling is a British baronet and landowner best known as the father of singer-songwriter Laura Marling.
  • C. Edmund Beckett Denison
    Edmund Beckett Denison was a 19th-century English lawyer, horologist, and clock designer best known for creating the mechanism of the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben).
  • D. Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
    Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was a senior Royal Air Force officer who held high command positions between the World Wars and during the early years of the Second World War.
  • E. Isaac Bayley Balfour
    Isaac Bayley Balfour was a prominent Scottish botanist and academic known for his contributions to plant taxonomy and his tenure as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
  • 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: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler
Triple: [Harcourt Butler Technical University, namedAfter, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler]
Generated description
Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler was a British colonial administrator who served in high-ranking positions in British India, including as Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and later as Governor of Burma.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler
Target entity description: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler was a British colonial administrator who served in high-ranking positions in British India, including as Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and later as Governor of Burma.
  • A. Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly
    Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly is a central character in T.S. Eliot’s play "The Cocktail Party," serving as a psychiatrist whose probing insights drive the drama’s exploration of personal crisis and spiritual renewal.
  • B. Sir Charles William Somerset Marling
    Sir Charles William Somerset Marling is a British baronet and landowner best known as the father of singer-songwriter Laura Marling.
  • C. Edmund Beckett Denison
    Edmund Beckett Denison was a 19th-century English lawyer, horologist, and clock designer best known for creating the mechanism of the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben).
  • D. Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
    Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was a senior Royal Air Force officer who held high command positions between the World Wars and during the early years of the Second World War.
  • E. Isaac Bayley Balfour
    Isaac Bayley Balfour was a prominent Scottish botanist and academic known for his contributions to plant taxonomy and his tenure as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
  • 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_69bd4467db0881909b3b0982df32cc8f completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7b2595c88190b4ca0b99c2f31472 completed March 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef820285881909f0e569e020a58ae completed March 21, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef8acecf48190a1d3f56640bf7784 completed March 21, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef92017948190906d1be3551b54c2 completed March 21, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:49 p.m.