Triple
T11243648
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire |
E266141
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHolder |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Colonel Alan David Macpherson
Colonel Alan David Macpherson was a British military officer and prominent local dignitary who served as the ceremonial representative of the Crown in Elginshire.
|
E913547
|
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: Colonel Alan David Macpherson | Statement: [Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, officeHolder, Colonel Alan David Macpherson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Alan David Macpherson Context triple: [Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, officeHolder, Colonel Alan David Macpherson]
-
A.
Major-General Tom Rennie
Major-General Tom Rennie was a British Army officer who distinguished himself as a frontline divisional commander during key campaigns of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
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B.
Major-General Rollo Gillespie
Major-General Rollo Gillespie was a distinguished British Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his service in the Napoleonic Wars and his death leading an assault during the Anglo-Nepalese War.
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C.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford was a British Army officer and Royal Engineers commander in the Anglo-Zulu War, best known for his controversial role and death at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.
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D.
Major Ian L. A. Baillie
Major Ian L. A. Baillie was a British Army officer and tank squadron commander noted for his role in armoured operations during the Normandy campaign of World War II.
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E.
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt was an Australian Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Timor in World War II.
- 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: Colonel Alan David Macpherson Triple: [Lord Lieutenant of Elginshire, officeHolder, Colonel Alan David Macpherson]
Generated description
Colonel Alan David Macpherson was a British military officer and prominent local dignitary who served as the ceremonial representative of the Crown in Elginshire.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Alan David Macpherson Target entity description: Colonel Alan David Macpherson was a British military officer and prominent local dignitary who served as the ceremonial representative of the Crown in Elginshire.
-
A.
Major-General Tom Rennie
Major-General Tom Rennie was a British Army officer who distinguished himself as a frontline divisional commander during key campaigns of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
-
B.
Major-General Rollo Gillespie
Major-General Rollo Gillespie was a distinguished British Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his service in the Napoleonic Wars and his death leading an assault during the Anglo-Nepalese War.
-
C.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford was a British Army officer and Royal Engineers commander in the Anglo-Zulu War, best known for his controversial role and death at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.
-
D.
Major Ian L. A. Baillie
Major Ian L. A. Baillie was a British Army officer and tank squadron commander noted for his role in armoured operations during the Normandy campaign of World War II.
-
E.
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt was an Australian Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Timor in World War II.
- 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_69d6aac656d48190b275efaa7d6074ee |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e91b0b808190bc38008bb344d180 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5:59 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e4ad849f70819098a7056fbc4831ff |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10:25 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e4b12eee348190bee6c84587e4955d |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e4be2bb8c88190a21773b0c43b6b99 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 11:36 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.