Triple

T7551685
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ceylon Defence Force E178548 entity
Predicate component P35 FINISHED
Object Ceylon Volunteer Artillery
The Ceylon Volunteer Artillery was a colonial-era volunteer artillery unit in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) that provided trained gunners and support for the island’s coastal and field defenses.
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 Artillery | Statement: [Ceylon Defence Force, component, Ceylon Volunteer Artillery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ceylon Volunteer Artillery
Context triple: [Ceylon Defence Force, component, Ceylon Volunteer Artillery]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Madras Army
    The Madras Army was one of the three presidency armies of British India, composed mainly of South Indian troops and playing a key role in British military campaigns in India and Southeast Asia before being merged into the unified British Indian Army.
  • C. Madras Cavalry
    Madras Cavalry was a mounted military unit of the British-era Madras Army in colonial India, known for its role in regional campaigns and internal security.
  • D. Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps
    The Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps was a military medical unit in colonial Ceylon that provided volunteer medical services and support to the island’s defence forces.
  • E. 34th Bengal Native Infantry
    The 34th Bengal Native Infantry was a regiment of the Bengal Army of the British East India Company, notable for its role in the early stages of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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 Artillery
Triple: [Ceylon Defence Force, component, Ceylon Volunteer Artillery]
Generated description
The Ceylon Volunteer Artillery was a colonial-era volunteer artillery unit in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) that provided trained gunners and support for the island’s coastal and field defenses.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ceylon Volunteer Artillery
Target entity description: The Ceylon Volunteer Artillery was a colonial-era volunteer artillery unit in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) that provided trained gunners and support for the island’s coastal and field defenses.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Madras Army
    The Madras Army was one of the three presidency armies of British India, composed mainly of South Indian troops and playing a key role in British military campaigns in India and Southeast Asia before being merged into the unified British Indian Army.
  • C. Madras Cavalry
    Madras Cavalry was a mounted military unit of the British-era Madras Army in colonial India, known for its role in regional campaigns and internal security.
  • D. Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps
    The Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps was a military medical unit in colonial Ceylon that provided volunteer medical services and support to the island’s defence forces.
  • E. 34th Bengal Native Infantry
    The 34th Bengal Native Infantry was a regiment of the Bengal Army of the British East India Company, notable for its role in the early stages of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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_69c89a834d4c8190acf521fcff884109 completed March 29, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c89d9e0ab881909008c68ad1ca3151 completed March 29, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c89e3514d48190889034c27d85c31e completed March 29, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:49 p.m.