Triple
T8236465
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | 4th Canadian Armoured Division |
E192419
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCommander |
P1197
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Major-General George Kitching
Major-General George Kitching was a Canadian Army officer who commanded armoured and infantry formations in Northwest Europe during the Second World War, including in the Normandy campaign.
|
E720789
|
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: Major-General George Kitching | Statement: [4th Canadian Armoured Division, notableCommander, Major-General George Kitching]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General George Kitching Context triple: [4th Canadian Armoured Division, notableCommander, Major-General George Kitching]
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A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
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B.
Major-General Rupert Smith
Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
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C.
Major-General Charles Foulkes
Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
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D.
Major General Harold Barrowclough
Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
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E.
Major-General George Erskine
Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
- 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: Major-General George Kitching Triple: [4th Canadian Armoured Division, notableCommander, Major-General George Kitching]
Generated description
Major-General George Kitching was a Canadian Army officer who commanded armoured and infantry formations in Northwest Europe during the Second World War, including in the Normandy campaign.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General George Kitching Target entity description: Major-General George Kitching was a Canadian Army officer who commanded armoured and infantry formations in Northwest Europe during the Second World War, including in the Normandy campaign.
-
A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
-
B.
Major-General Rupert Smith
Major-General Rupert Smith is a British Army officer best known for his senior command roles during the Gulf War and in Bosnia, and for his influential writings on modern warfare.
-
C.
Major-General Charles Foulkes
Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
-
D.
Major General Harold Barrowclough
Major General Harold Barrowclough was a distinguished New Zealand military leader and jurist who commanded New Zealand forces in the Pacific during the Second World War and later served as Chief Justice of New Zealand.
-
E.
Major-General George Erskine
Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
- 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_69ca82dc8f148190a2c75a98501a7b91 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb782a5e18819096235679f5a644a8 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:30 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cd34fb069c8190965d69fae908482e |
completed | April 1, 2026, 3:08 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cd37a47f3c81909491e9b0316c32f0 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cd4ecc8d68819099932b1ecefc0d36 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 4:58 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.