Triple

T5568719
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ceratotherium simum cottoni E145942 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)
British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni) was a colonial-era British military figure after whom the northern white rhinoceros subspecies Ceratotherium simum cottoni was named.
E534358 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: British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni) | Statement: [Ceratotherium simum cottoni, namedAfter, British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)
Context triple: [Ceratotherium simum cottoni, namedAfter, British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)]
  • A. British military governor
    A British military governor was the senior officer appointed by the United Kingdom to exercise executive authority and oversee civil and military affairs in a territory under British military occupation or administration.
  • B. Colonel Broadwood
    Colonel Broadwood was a British Army officer best known for leading mounted troops during the Second Boer War, including at the Battle of Sanna's Post.
  • C. British General Ronald Scobie
    British General Ronald Scobie was a senior British Army officer best known for commanding Allied and British forces in Greece during World War II, particularly in the turbulent period of the Greek Civil War.
  • D. British Commissioner
    The British Commissioner was the chief colonial official responsible for administering the leased territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the United Kingdom.
  • E. Sergeant-Major Hewson
    Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
  • 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: British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)
Triple: [Ceratotherium simum cottoni, namedAfter, British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)]
Generated description
British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni) was a colonial-era British military figure after whom the northern white rhinoceros subspecies Ceratotherium simum cottoni was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni)
Target entity description: British officer Cotton (epithet cottoni) was a colonial-era British military figure after whom the northern white rhinoceros subspecies Ceratotherium simum cottoni was named.
  • A. British military governor
    A British military governor was the senior officer appointed by the United Kingdom to exercise executive authority and oversee civil and military affairs in a territory under British military occupation or administration.
  • B. Colonel Broadwood
    Colonel Broadwood was a British Army officer best known for leading mounted troops during the Second Boer War, including at the Battle of Sanna's Post.
  • C. British General Ronald Scobie
    British General Ronald Scobie was a senior British Army officer best known for commanding Allied and British forces in Greece during World War II, particularly in the turbulent period of the Greek Civil War.
  • D. British Commissioner
    The British Commissioner was the chief colonial official responsible for administering the leased territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the United Kingdom.
  • E. Sergeant-Major Hewson
    Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
  • 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_69c008fdae24819081aa002ad99cd966 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0203789688190a0bab723186214ad completed March 22, 2026, 5 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d177d18819090018371d22c66a3 completed March 22, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04e868cc48190bdb245ba52b9b938 completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f0de68c8190817b525f2d8ef327 completed March 22, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:36 p.m.