Triple

T11904011
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Earls of Douglas E283227 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas E296473 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas | Statement: [Earls of Douglas, hasMember, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
Context triple: [Earls of Douglas, hasMember, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas]
  • A. William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas chosen
    William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who became the progenitor of the influential Black Douglas branch of the Douglas family.
  • B. William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
  • C. William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Black Douglas family whose growing influence brought him into fatal conflict with King James II of Scotland.
  • D. James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader, prominent in the Wars of Scottish Independence and a key figure of the influential Black Douglas family.
  • E. James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab2c07e88190ba13b0d21fd6cf33 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d8dd1792648190853f15fbf217eebd ner completed
NED1 batch_69f66849ba888190a50c5a5fcdb935e0 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:44 p.m.