Triple

T7551684
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ceylon Defence Force E178548 entity
Predicate component P35 FINISHED
Object Ceylon Volunteer Engineers
Ceylon Volunteer Engineers was a military engineering unit within the Ceylon Defence Force responsible for providing technical and engineering support services.
E178548 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: Ceylon Volunteer Engineers | Statement: [Ceylon Defence Force, component, Ceylon Volunteer Engineers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ceylon Volunteer Engineers
Context triple: [Ceylon Defence Force, component, Ceylon Volunteer Engineers]
  • A. Ceylon Civil Service
    The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
  • B. Ceylon Defence Force
    The Ceylon Defence Force was the colonial-era military organization of British Ceylon, responsible for the island’s local defense and internal security before independence.
  • C. Malacca Volunteer Corps
    The Malacca Volunteer Corps was a colonial-era volunteer military unit based in Malacca that later became part of the broader Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
  • D. British Ceylon
    British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
  • E. Commonwealth Engineers Council
    The Commonwealth Engineers Council is a professional body that brings together engineering institutions from across Commonwealth countries to promote collaboration, standards, and development in the engineering profession.
  • 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: Ceylon Volunteer Engineers
Triple: [Ceylon Defence Force, component, Ceylon Volunteer Engineers]
Generated description
Ceylon Volunteer Engineers was a military engineering unit within the Ceylon Defence Force responsible for providing technical and engineering support services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ceylon Volunteer Engineers
Target entity description: Ceylon Volunteer Engineers was a military engineering unit within the Ceylon Defence Force responsible for providing technical and engineering support services.
  • A. Ceylon Civil Service
    The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
  • B. Ceylon Defence Force chosen
    The Ceylon Defence Force was the colonial-era military organization of British Ceylon, responsible for the island’s local defense and internal security before independence.
  • C. Malacca Volunteer Corps
    The Malacca Volunteer Corps was a colonial-era volunteer military unit based in Malacca that later became part of the broader Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
  • D. British Ceylon
    British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
  • E. Commonwealth Engineers Council
    The Commonwealth Engineers Council is a professional body that brings together engineering institutions from across Commonwealth countries to promote collaboration, standards, and development in the engineering profession.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c69f2cbe08819088f9eb0c03ef529b completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f8b6c6488190b8fd94aca6ea8486 completed March 27, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84f33c968819089fd0a2b07b076a3 completed March 28, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c84fb8382881909f29472230550aff completed March 28, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c850327c8c81908c3e1ccf58b5bd74 completed March 28, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:49 p.m.