Triple

T9402136
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horace Smith-Dorrien E226497 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
E797186 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: Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien | Statement: [Horace Smith-Dorrien, father, Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
Context triple: [Horace Smith-Dorrien, father, Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien]
  • A. Sir Edmund Hirst
    Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • B. Horace Smith-Dorrien
    Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
  • C. William Reginald Hall
    William Reginald Hall was a British naval intelligence officer and admiral best known for directing Royal Navy codebreaking operations during World War I.
  • D. Archibald Alexander Leach
    Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • E. John Vereker
    John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, was a British Army officer best known for commanding the British Expeditionary Force during the early stages of World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation.
  • 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: Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
Triple: [Horace Smith-Dorrien, father, Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien]
Generated description
Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien
Target entity description: Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien was a British Army officer and landowner of the 19th century, best known as the patriarch of the Smith-Dorrien family from which General Horace Smith-Dorrien emerged.
  • A. Sir Edmund Hirst
    Sir Edmund Hirst was a prominent British chemist known for his pioneering work in carbohydrate chemistry and structural elucidation of sugars.
  • B. Horace Smith-Dorrien
    Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
  • C. William Reginald Hall
    William Reginald Hall was a British naval intelligence officer and admiral best known for directing Royal Navy codebreaking operations during World War I.
  • D. Archibald Alexander Leach
    Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • E. John Vereker
    John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, was a British Army officer best known for commanding the British Expeditionary Force during the early stages of World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation.
  • 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_69ca843170f88190800a8ab2b5fc568e completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd51be35cc8190bafad423a142c305 completed April 1, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1079798048190a1bd5318df4b1649 completed April 4, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1082f41b48190b8588bb986028f59 completed April 4, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d108bab8c881909748ffbb4b23f4ba completed April 4, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:46 p.m.