Triple

T9229270

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Sydney Buxton, 1st Viscount Buxton	`E221772`	entity
Predicate	positionHeld	`P8`	FINISHED
Object	Postmaster General of the United Kingdom The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing the national postal system and, later, telecommunications services.	`E35629`	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: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom | Statement: [Sydney Buxton, 1st Viscount Buxton, positionHeld, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
Context triple: [Sydney Buxton, 1st Viscount Buxton, positionHeld, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom]

A. Postmaster General of Great Britain
The Postmaster General of Great Britain was the senior government official historically responsible for overseeing the national postal system and related communications services in Great Britain.
B. Paymaster General of the United Kingdom
The Paymaster General of the United Kingdom is a senior government ministerial post traditionally responsible for overseeing government payments and often combined with other Cabinet or Treasury responsibilities.
C. Postmaster General of the United States
The Postmaster General of the United States is the chief executive officer of the U.S. Postal Service, responsible for overseeing the nation’s mail system and postal operations.
D. Director General of the International Bureau of the UPU
The Director General of the International Bureau of the UPU is the chief executive officer of the Universal Postal Union’s secretariat, responsible for overseeing its global postal policy work and day-to-day administration.
E. Deputy Postmaster General of the United States
The Deputy Postmaster General of the United States is the second-highest executive officer of the U.S. Postal Service, responsible for assisting in overall leadership, operations, and strategic direction of the agency.
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: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
Triple: [Sydney Buxton, 1st Viscount Buxton, positionHeld, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom]

Generated description

The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing the national postal system and, later, telecommunications services.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
Target entity description: The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a senior government minister responsible for overseeing the national postal system and, later, telecommunications services.

A. Postmaster General of Great Britain chosen
The Postmaster General of Great Britain was the senior government official historically responsible for overseeing the national postal system and related communications services in Great Britain.
B. Paymaster General of the United Kingdom
The Paymaster General of the United Kingdom is a senior government ministerial post traditionally responsible for overseeing government payments and often combined with other Cabinet or Treasury responsibilities.
C. Postmaster General of the United States
The Postmaster General of the United States is the chief executive officer of the U.S. Postal Service, responsible for overseeing the nation’s mail system and postal operations.
D. Director General of the International Bureau of the UPU
The Director General of the International Bureau of the UPU is the chief executive officer of the Universal Postal Union’s secretariat, responsible for overseeing its global postal policy work and day-to-day administration.
E. Deputy Postmaster General of the United States
The Deputy Postmaster General of the United States is the second-highest executive officer of the U.S. Postal Service, responsible for assisting in overall leadership, operations, and strategic direction of the agency.
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_69ca83ec8db08190a9110df8232885d2`	completed	March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69ccdaa1c5b4819081dac6713053a8ae`	completed	April 1, 2026, 8:43 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69d0666364608190b104425819ccedf1`	completed	April 4, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69d06772c0508190883b22974ec09155`	completed	April 4, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69d067cab3a4819086a464f36a8adb3a`	completed	April 4, 2026, 1:22 a.m.

Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:29 p.m.