Triple

T6094835
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom) E135850 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Major-General Patrick Cordingley
Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
E572124 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: Major-General Patrick Cordingley | Statement: [1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom), commander, Major-General Patrick Cordingley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Patrick Cordingley
Context triple: [1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom), commander, Major-General Patrick Cordingley]
  • A. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • B. Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
    Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse was a British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of armoured and Indian Army formations in the North African and Middle Eastern campaigns.
  • C. Major-General George Erskine
    Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Charles Foulkes
    Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
  • E. Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
    Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair was a senior British Army officer and decorated World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest 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: Major-General Patrick Cordingley
Triple: [1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom), commander, Major-General Patrick Cordingley]
Generated description
Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Patrick Cordingley
Target entity description: Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
  • A. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • B. Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
    Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse was a British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of armoured and Indian Army formations in the North African and Middle Eastern campaigns.
  • C. Major-General George Erskine
    Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Charles Foulkes
    Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
  • E. Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
    Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair was a senior British Army officer and decorated World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest 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_69c0087cd3c48190b459848c72d84eb1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05a963bac8190bc0c33fef187875c completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c135879c988190bd35fa01674d6a15 completed March 23, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c139e500c8819092834f51f3ea3ebc completed March 23, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c13a4fa888819088a4174486427777 completed March 23, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:12 p.m.