Triple

T10839295
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Babington Macaulay E255843 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Macaulay
Macaulay is a Scottish-origin surname best known from the 19th-century British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay.
E888651 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: Macaulay | Statement: [Thomas Babington Macaulay, familyName, Macaulay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Macaulay
Context triple: [Thomas Babington Macaulay, familyName, Macaulay]
  • A. Richard Macaulay
    Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
  • B. George Campbell
    George Campbell was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and theologian best known for his influential role in the Scottish Enlightenment and his defense of common sense in human knowledge and religious belief.
  • C. Charles Edward Macauley
    Charles Edward "Ed" Macauley was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball player and coach, best known as an early NBA star with the St. Louis Bombers, Boston Celtics, and St. Louis Hawks.
  • D. Alexander Ramsay
    Alexander Ramsay was a British naval officer and aristocrat best known as the husband of Princess Patricia of Connaught, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
  • E. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • 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: Macaulay
Triple: [Thomas Babington Macaulay, familyName, Macaulay]
Generated description
Macaulay is a Scottish-origin surname best known from the 19th-century British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Macaulay
Target entity description: Macaulay is a Scottish-origin surname best known from the 19th-century British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  • A. Richard Macaulay
    Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
  • B. George Campbell
    George Campbell was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and theologian best known for his influential role in the Scottish Enlightenment and his defense of common sense in human knowledge and religious belief.
  • C. Charles Edward Macauley
    Charles Edward "Ed" Macauley was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball player and coach, best known as an early NBA star with the St. Louis Bombers, Boston Celtics, and St. Louis Hawks.
  • D. Alexander Ramsay
    Alexander Ramsay was a British naval officer and aristocrat best known as the husband of Princess Patricia of Connaught, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
  • E. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • 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_69d6aa81a5d08190aa86689061d1ddd2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d747012fa48190af06de2cfb231d5b completed April 9, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69deb139072081908a67e76a83575c32 completed April 14, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69deb41c9ae881909a3dab1292d6ddd7 completed April 14, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69deb4e471648190a00f3a921b5fb657 completed April 14, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:19 p.m.