Triple

T11681563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alasdair MacColla E277626 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Alexander MacDonald
Alexander MacDonald, also known as Alasdair MacColla, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Highland warrior and Royalist commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
 E944120 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: Alexander MacDonald | Statement: [Alasdair MacColla, alsoKnownAs, Alexander MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander MacDonald
Context triple: [Alasdair MacColla, alsoKnownAs, Alexander MacDonald]
  • A. Stewart MacLennan
    Stewart MacLennan is a Scottish music promoter best known for co-founding and helping develop the Tiree Music Festival into a prominent island music event.
  • B. Ian G. Macdonald
    Ian G. Macdonald is a British mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebra, particularly in symmetric functions and commutative algebra, and for authoring several classic graduate-level textbooks.
  • C. John MacRae
    John MacRae is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
  • D. William Gordon MacRae
    William Gordon MacRae is one of the children of British-born American actress and singer Sheila MacRae.
  • E. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director best known for his gritty British crime drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980).
  • 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: Alexander MacDonald
Triple: [Alasdair MacColla, alsoKnownAs, Alexander MacDonald]
Generated description
Alexander MacDonald, also known as Alasdair MacColla, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Highland warrior and Royalist commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander MacDonald
Target entity description: Alexander MacDonald, also known as Alasdair MacColla, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Highland warrior and Royalist commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • A. Stewart MacLennan
    Stewart MacLennan is a Scottish music promoter best known for co-founding and helping develop the Tiree Music Festival into a prominent island music event.
  • B. Ian G. Macdonald
    Ian G. Macdonald is a British mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebra, particularly in symmetric functions and commutative algebra, and for authoring several classic graduate-level textbooks.
  • C. John MacRae
    John MacRae is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
  • D. William Gordon MacRae
    William Gordon MacRae is one of the children of British-born American actress and singer Sheila MacRae.
  • E. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director best known for his gritty British crime drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980).
  • 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_69d6aafd0a448190b44da30af8c6c519 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a462bb2881909238107d34c0a28d completed April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f0192f790c8190a99d512b6f5c15aa completed April 28, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f01d7ab930819095eaae226ab55b80 completed April 28, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f043ddbfe481908e0c439dbd3e944f completed April 28, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.