Triple

T8121166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject HMS Repulse E189610 entity
Predicate commandingOfficerAtSinking P72525 FINISHED
Object Captain William G. Tennant
Captain William G. Tennant was a Royal Navy officer best known for his leadership during the Dunkirk evacuation and later command of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse during its loss in World War II.
E713598 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Captain William G. Tennant | Statement: [HMS Repulse, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain William G. Tennant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain William G. Tennant
Context triple: [HMS Repulse, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain William G. Tennant]
  • A. Rear Admiral Frank H. Schofield
    Rear Admiral Frank H. Schofield was a senior United States Navy officer who held key leadership and administrative roles in the early 20th century, contributing significantly to naval operations and personnel management.
  • B. Admiral Jonas H. Ingram
    Admiral Jonas H. Ingram was a highly decorated U.S. Navy officer who rose to command major naval forces during World War II and later served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
  • C. Captain Charles J. Johnston
    Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
  • D. Captain W. E. Kingman
    Captain W. E. Kingman was a 19th-century sea captain and explorer after whom the remote Pacific atoll Kingman Reef was named.
  • E. Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen
    Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen was a 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his service in the Civil War and his influential role in modernizing naval administration and strategy.
  • 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: Captain William G. Tennant
Triple: [HMS Repulse, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain William G. Tennant]
Generated description
Captain William G. Tennant was a Royal Navy officer best known for his leadership during the Dunkirk evacuation and later command of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse during its loss in World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain William G. Tennant
Target entity description: Captain William G. Tennant was a Royal Navy officer best known for his leadership during the Dunkirk evacuation and later command of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse during its loss in World War II.
  • A. Rear Admiral Frank H. Schofield
    Rear Admiral Frank H. Schofield was a senior United States Navy officer who held key leadership and administrative roles in the early 20th century, contributing significantly to naval operations and personnel management.
  • B. Admiral Jonas H. Ingram
    Admiral Jonas H. Ingram was a highly decorated U.S. Navy officer who rose to command major naval forces during World War II and later served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
  • C. Captain Charles J. Johnston
    Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
  • D. Captain W. E. Kingman
    Captain W. E. Kingman was a 19th-century sea captain and explorer after whom the remote Pacific atoll Kingman Reef was named.
  • E. Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen
    Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen was a 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his service in the Civil War and his influential role in modernizing naval administration and strategy.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: commandingOfficerAtSinking
Context triple: [HMS Repulse, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain William G. Tennant]
  • A. captainAtTimeOfSinking chosen
    Indicates that the subject was serving as the ship’s captain at the specific time when the ship sank.
  • B. missionAtTimeOfSinking
    Indicates that a vessel was engaged in a specific mission or operational role at the time it sank.
  • C. crewComplementAtSinking
    Indicates the number or composition of a vessel’s crew present on board at the time it sank.
  • D. opposingForcesAtSinking
    Indicates that two or more forces are acting in opposition to each other at the time or location of a sinking event.
  • E. placeOfSinking
    Indicates the location where an object or entity sank or was submerged.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ca82bb74848190afb1f18640632c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4664fef881908b0dc7b158aca398 completed March 31, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc9454ccb48190b0f894bed5da8a01 completed April 1, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc9605b8248190a621ea934c58913d completed April 1, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc96fa03d881909a1eeed6af9a3149 completed April 1, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cb368e7f4c81909aabd7716f0de79d completed March 31, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:33 p.m.