Triple

T688054
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Pitt the Elder E13327 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Secretary of State for the Southern Department E9384 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Secretary of State for the Southern Department | Statement: [William Pitt the Elder, positionHeld, Secretary of State for the Southern Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Secretary of State for the Southern Department
Context triple: [William Pitt the Elder, positionHeld, Secretary of State for the Southern Department]
  • A. Secretary of State for the Southern Department chosen
    The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a principal British cabinet position responsible for foreign and domestic affairs in southern England, Ireland, and parts of the British Empire until it was reorganized in the late 18th century.
  • B. Secretary of State for the Northern Department
    The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a senior British government office responsible for foreign and domestic affairs relating mainly to northern Europe and, at times, parts of Britain and Ireland, before being replaced by the modern Foreign Secretary role.
  • C. Secretary of State for War
    The Secretary of State for War was a senior British government minister responsible for overseeing the administration, organization, and policy of the British Army before the role was abolished and its functions absorbed into the Ministry of Defence.
  • D. Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War
    The Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War was the senior civil servant responsible for overseeing the administration and day-to-day operations of the British Army within the United Kingdom government.
  • E. Secretary of War
    The Secretary of War was a former U.S. Cabinet-level official responsible for overseeing the Army and managing the nation’s military affairs before the creation of the Department of Defense.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69a4933e0f98819097d22766c49b61b8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a0953fb481909e1d4177ee191351 completed March 1, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dca352248190a3e1b4e4c58a1e7f completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.