Triple

T5949374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ninth Army E132358 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes
Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes was a senior British Army officer who held high command during the Second World War, including leadership roles in the Middle East.
E562119 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: Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes | Statement: [Ninth Army, notableCommander, Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes
Context triple: [Ninth Army, notableCommander, Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes]
  • A. Lieutenant-General William Gott
    Lieutenant-General William Gott was a senior British Army officer and desert warfare specialist in the Second World War, known for his leadership in the North African campaign and for being appointed to command the Eighth Army shortly before his death in a plane crash in 1942.
  • B. Lieutenant General Philip Christison
    Lieutenant General Philip Christison was a senior British Army officer of World War II, noted for his leadership in the Burma Campaign and other Southeast Asian operations.
  • C. Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart
    Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart was a British Army officer and colonial administrator noted for his service in the Napoleonic Wars, as Governor of the Cape Colony, and for his role and death during the Crimean War.
  • D. Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston
    Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston was a British Army officer and First World War corps commander, best known for his controversial leadership during major offensives such as Gallipoli and the Battle of the Somme.
  • E. Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey
    Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his corps-level command roles in major campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
  • 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: Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes
Triple: [Ninth Army, notableCommander, Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes]
Generated description
Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes was a senior British Army officer who held high command during the Second World War, including leadership roles in the Middle East.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes
Target entity description: Lieutenant-General Sir William Holmes was a senior British Army officer who held high command during the Second World War, including leadership roles in the Middle East.
  • A. Lieutenant-General William Gott
    Lieutenant-General William Gott was a senior British Army officer and desert warfare specialist in the Second World War, known for his leadership in the North African campaign and for being appointed to command the Eighth Army shortly before his death in a plane crash in 1942.
  • B. Lieutenant General Philip Christison
    Lieutenant General Philip Christison was a senior British Army officer of World War II, noted for his leadership in the Burma Campaign and other Southeast Asian operations.
  • C. Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart
    Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart was a British Army officer and colonial administrator noted for his service in the Napoleonic Wars, as Governor of the Cape Colony, and for his role and death during the Crimean War.
  • D. Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston
    Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston was a British Army officer and First World War corps commander, best known for his controversial leadership during major offensives such as Gallipoli and the Battle of the Somme.
  • E. Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey
    Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his corps-level command roles in major campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
  • 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_69c00869d3308190af89b2453e0f7546 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0397deea08190b9397d0413740300 completed March 22, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c108269e6081909fcb6b880fc92011 completed March 23, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c10af3bfbc8190aa72b7e1a88b45d5 completed March 23, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10b5c118c8190aaf5461c40472022 completed March 23, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:02 p.m.