Triple

T10418432
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Macmillan's Magazine E245580 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object David Masson
David Masson was a 19th-century Scottish literary critic, biographer, and professor best known for his scholarship on John Milton and his influential role in Victorian literary culture.
E862347 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: David Masson | Statement: [Macmillan's Magazine, editor, David Masson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Masson
Context triple: [Macmillan's Magazine, editor, David Masson]
  • A. Richard Jobson
    Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker and former frontman of the punk band The Skids, known for directing stylish, often gritty independent films.
  • B. J. Louis Martyn
    J. Louis Martyn was a prominent New Testament scholar best known for his influential work on the Gospel of John and the concept of the Johannine community.
  • C. Sidney Ward
    Sidney Ward is a municipal ward within the city of Quinte West in Ontario, Canada, represented on the local city council.
  • D. Robert Matheson
    Robert Matheson was a 19th-century Scottish architect best known for his role as Clerk of Works for Scotland and for designing prominent public buildings in Edinburgh.
  • E. Henry Van Brunt
    Henry Van Brunt was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in shaping civic and institutional architecture across the United States.
  • 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: David Masson
Triple: [Macmillan's Magazine, editor, David Masson]
Generated description
David Masson was a 19th-century Scottish literary critic, biographer, and professor best known for his scholarship on John Milton and his influential role in Victorian literary culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Masson
Target entity description: David Masson was a 19th-century Scottish literary critic, biographer, and professor best known for his scholarship on John Milton and his influential role in Victorian literary culture.
  • A. Richard Jobson
    Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker and former frontman of the punk band The Skids, known for directing stylish, often gritty independent films.
  • B. J. Louis Martyn
    J. Louis Martyn was a prominent New Testament scholar best known for his influential work on the Gospel of John and the concept of the Johannine community.
  • C. Sidney Ward
    Sidney Ward is a municipal ward within the city of Quinte West in Ontario, Canada, represented on the local city council.
  • D. Robert Matheson
    Robert Matheson was a 19th-century Scottish architect best known for his role as Clerk of Works for Scotland and for designing prominent public buildings in Edinburgh.
  • E. Henry Van Brunt
    Henry Van Brunt was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in shaping civic and institutional architecture across the United States.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4ea2938188190a908316d0a0959be completed April 7, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fc17c874819096b656056ed2dd8a completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d76f3481909f7c04be19414b14 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859fd8f0c8190b0fec880e1180e50 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:11 p.m.