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.
  • 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
  • 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.