Triple
T10279238
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colin Macfarquhar |
E241049
|
entity |
| Predicate | businessPartner |
P282
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Smellie |
E179983
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Smellie | Statement: [Colin Macfarquhar, businessPartner, William Smellie]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smellie Context triple: [Colin Macfarquhar, businessPartner, William Smellie]
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A.
William Smellie
chosen
William Smellie was an 18th-century Scottish printer, editor, and naturalist best known for overseeing and shaping the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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B.
William Cullen
William Cullen was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist who became a leading medical teacher of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped shape modern clinical and chemical education.
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C.
Archibald Menzies
Archibald Menzies was an 18th–19th century Scottish surgeon, botanist, and naturalist best known for his plant-collecting voyages with Captain George Vancouver and for introducing numerous Pacific plant species to Europe.
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D.
Sir John Harvey
Sir John Harvey was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and played a key diplomatic role in defusing tensions during the Aroostook War between the United States and British North America.
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E.
William Price
William Price is a good-natured, seafaring brother of Fanny Price in Jane Austen’s novel "Mansfield Park," known for his lively spirit and affectionate loyalty to his family.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d381a94c1881908fc38fc263d9b9c2 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4d29fdf2c819099dd581deac08cf2 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 9:47 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d6f8286b1881908b54037d1798f74a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 12:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:38 a.m.