Triple

T11921427
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hanning Speke E283664 entity
Predicate coExplorer P47886 FINISHED
Object James Augustus Grant
James Augustus Grant was a 19th-century Scottish explorer best known for accompanying John Hanning Speke on the expedition that helped confirm the source of the Nile.
 E954635 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: James Augustus Grant | Statement: [John Hanning Speke, coExplorer, James Augustus Grant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Augustus Grant
Context triple: [John Hanning Speke, coExplorer, James Augustus Grant]
  • A. William Mackenzie
    William Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian railway entrepreneur and financier best known for co-founding and expanding the Canadian Northern Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. William Mackenzie
    William Mackenzie is a Canadian businessman best known as a co-founder of the global alternative asset management firm Brookfield Asset Management.
  • C. Lloyd Simcoe
    Lloyd Simcoe is a central character in the science fiction TV series "FlashForward," portrayed as a brilliant physicist whose research is closely tied to the mysterious global blackout event.
  • D. James Edward Grant
    James Edward Grant was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific collaborations on Western films, particularly with John Wayne.
  • E. Sir William Macdonald
    Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
  • 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: James Augustus Grant
Triple: [John Hanning Speke, coExplorer, James Augustus Grant]
Generated description
James Augustus Grant was a 19th-century Scottish explorer best known for accompanying John Hanning Speke on the expedition that helped confirm the source of the Nile.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Augustus Grant
Target entity description: James Augustus Grant was a 19th-century Scottish explorer best known for accompanying John Hanning Speke on the expedition that helped confirm the source of the Nile.
  • A. William Mackenzie
    William Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian railway entrepreneur and financier best known for co-founding and expanding the Canadian Northern Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. William Mackenzie
    William Mackenzie is a Canadian businessman best known as a co-founder of the global alternative asset management firm Brookfield Asset Management.
  • C. Lloyd Simcoe
    Lloyd Simcoe is a central character in the science fiction TV series "FlashForward," portrayed as a brilliant physicist whose research is closely tied to the mysterious global blackout event.
  • D. James Edward Grant
    James Edward Grant was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific collaborations on Western films, particularly with John Wayne.
  • E. Sir William Macdonald
    Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
  • 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8e8e1b08481909ed291667035f330 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f44033c288819099587af3f895eac5 completed May 1, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448fa8eec81909fe6ac0902f46998 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44aef15148190ba8090681b921ffa completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.