Triple

T5250523
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Duke of Devonshire E118574 entity
Predicate firstHolder P291 FINISHED
Object William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire E296440 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire | Statement: [Duke of Devonshire, firstHolder, William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire
Context triple: [Duke of Devonshire, firstHolder, William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire]
  • A. William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire chosen
    William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire, was an influential English nobleman and politician best known for helping to orchestrate the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that brought William III and Mary II to the throne.
  • B. William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire
    William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, was an English nobleman and politician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who helped establish the prominence of the Cavendish family in national affairs.
  • C. William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
    William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister and was a prominent member of the Whig aristocracy.
  • D. William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
    William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British Whig politician and nobleman who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held several high offices under King George II.
  • E. William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
    William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69bd4468aacc8190a8196f71855cdf4f elicitation completed
NER batch_69bd7b79ae0c81908a9b8614f6886259 ner completed
NED1 batch_69bf18770e608190932d9de276e47212 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:50 p.m.