Triple

T9570413
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland E230898 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)
The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay) was a British aristocrat and colonial administrator who served in high-ranking imperial roles during the mid-20th century.
 E806889 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: The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay) | Statement: [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, positionHeldBy, The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)
Context triple: [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, positionHeldBy, The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)]
  • A. Sir Willoughby Norrie
    Sir Willoughby Norrie was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Viscount Simon
    Viscount Simon is a British hereditary peerage title created for the prominent 20th-century Liberal politician and statesman Sir John Simon.
  • C. Viscount Duncan
    Viscount Duncan is the noble title created for British Admiral Adam Duncan, celebrated for his decisive naval victory at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797.
  • D. Lord David Dirry-Moir
    Lord David Dirry-Moir is a nobleman character in Victor Hugo’s novel *L'Homme qui rit*, representing the English aristocracy and its moral ambiguities.
  • E. Lord Robert Seymour
    Lord Robert Seymour was a British aristocrat and politician of the 18th century, known as a younger son of the influential Seymour-Conway family.
  • 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: The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)
Triple: [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, positionHeldBy, The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)]
Generated description
The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay) was a British aristocrat and colonial administrator who served in high-ranking imperial roles during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay)
Target entity description: The Earl of Dalhousie (Simon Ramsay) was a British aristocrat and colonial administrator who served in high-ranking imperial roles during the mid-20th century.
  • A. Sir Willoughby Norrie
    Sir Willoughby Norrie was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Viscount Simon
    Viscount Simon is a British hereditary peerage title created for the prominent 20th-century Liberal politician and statesman Sir John Simon.
  • C. Viscount Duncan
    Viscount Duncan is the noble title created for British Admiral Adam Duncan, celebrated for his decisive naval victory at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797.
  • D. Lord David Dirry-Moir
    Lord David Dirry-Moir is a nobleman character in Victor Hugo’s novel *L'Homme qui rit*, representing the English aristocracy and its moral ambiguities.
  • E. Lord Robert Seymour
    Lord Robert Seymour was a British aristocrat and politician of the 18th century, known as a younger son of the influential Seymour-Conway family.
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd998ab5948190be78db4eed7825a0 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152ba8f8081908b11c3c098e7e5f0 completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1541b005c8190b79fdc6a241d4198 completed April 4, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d154d3a2d0819095bca826b510ee92 completed April 4, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.