Triple

T9509863
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Theophilus Shepstone E229364 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Theophilus
Theophilus is the given name of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a prominent 19th-century British South African statesman and colonial administrator.
E803798 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: Theophilus | Statement: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, givenName, Theophilus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophilus
Context triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, givenName, Theophilus]
  • A. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
  • B. Theophilus
    Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
  • C. Theophilus
    Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • D. Theophilus of Antioch
    Theophilus of Antioch was a 2nd-century Christian apologist and bishop known for his work "To Autolycus," one of the earliest extant attempts to systematically defend Christianity using Greek philosophical concepts.
  • E. Theodore of Tarsus
    Theodore of Tarsus was a 7th-century Archbishop of Canterbury whose organizational reforms and leadership were crucial in unifying and strengthening the early English Church during the Christianization of the British Isles.
  • 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: Theophilus
Triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, givenName, Theophilus]
Generated description
Theophilus is the given name of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a prominent 19th-century British South African statesman and colonial administrator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophilus
Target entity description: Theophilus is the given name of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a prominent 19th-century British South African statesman and colonial administrator.
  • A. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
  • B. Theophilus
    Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
  • C. Theophilus
    Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • D. Theophilus of Antioch
    Theophilus of Antioch was a 2nd-century Christian apologist and bishop known for his work "To Autolycus," one of the earliest extant attempts to systematically defend Christianity using Greek philosophical concepts.
  • E. Theodore of Tarsus
    Theodore of Tarsus was a 7th-century Archbishop of Canterbury whose organizational reforms and leadership were crucial in unifying and strengthening the early English Church during the Christianization of the British Isles.
  • 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_69ca847611c48190a28c028644198c75 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9857058881909e0a40e2024a7b4c completed April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a31600c8190a4a7ecb5231caa36 completed April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d13be79b1c8190a9110312ae25cf32 completed April 4, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d13ca165b88190b4d629df0e079b3b completed April 4, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.