Triple

T6522669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cape Colbeck E151221 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Colbeck
William Colbeck was a British Antarctic explorer and seaman known for commanding relief expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.
E620891 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: William Colbeck | Statement: [Cape Colbeck, namedAfter, William Colbeck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Colbeck
Context triple: [Cape Colbeck, namedAfter, William Colbeck]
  • A. Charles Bebb
    Charles Bebb was a prominent early 20th-century American architect based in Seattle, known for helping shape the city's skyline through major commercial and landmark buildings.
  • B. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • C. William Pleeth
    William Pleeth was a renowned British cellist and influential teacher best known for mentoring the celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
  • D. Charles Gough
    Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
  • E. Paul Beeston
    Paul Beeston is a prominent Canadian baseball executive best known for his long tenure as a top leader of the Toronto Blue Jays and as the first president of Major League Baseball.
  • 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: William Colbeck
Triple: [Cape Colbeck, namedAfter, William Colbeck]
Generated description
William Colbeck was a British Antarctic explorer and seaman known for commanding relief expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Colbeck
Target entity description: William Colbeck was a British Antarctic explorer and seaman known for commanding relief expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.
  • A. Charles Bebb
    Charles Bebb was a prominent early 20th-century American architect based in Seattle, known for helping shape the city's skyline through major commercial and landmark buildings.
  • B. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • C. William Pleeth
    William Pleeth was a renowned British cellist and influential teacher best known for mentoring the celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
  • D. Charles Gough
    Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
  • E. Paul Beeston
    Paul Beeston is a prominent Canadian baseball executive best known for his long tenure as a top leader of the Toronto Blue Jays and as the first president of Major League Baseball.
  • 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_69c687f522748190b3058405553cdabd completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ad95c2c88190b800aaaa73f99210 completed March 27, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723af5fa88190acd0c040cdf24f13 completed March 28, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7245ac3e08190839b7873962a26d6 completed March 28, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c724e9d3848190a09ad0ad1efe451a completed March 28, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:45 p.m.