Triple

T12119510
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donaldson E288653 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Gordon Donaldson (historian)
Gordon Donaldson was a prominent 20th-century Scottish historian and academic, best known for his authoritative works on Scottish history and his role as Historiographer Royal in Scotland.
E965785 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: Gordon Donaldson (historian) | Statement: [Donaldson, hasNotableBearer, Gordon Donaldson (historian)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon Donaldson (historian)
Context triple: [Donaldson, hasNotableBearer, Gordon Donaldson (historian)]
  • A. Robert Donaldson
    Robert Donaldson is a notable figure in whose honor the Donaldson Award was established, recognizing significant contributions in his field.
  • B. Alistair C. Crombie
    Alistair C. Crombie was a prominent historian of science known for his influential work on the development of scientific thought in Western culture.
  • C. Alisdair Stewart
    Alisdair Stewart is a central character in the 1993 film "The Piano," known as the emotionally complex husband whose relationship with the mute pianist Ada drives much of the drama.
  • D. Robert Dundas Duncan
    Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Brian Harrison (historian)
    Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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: Gordon Donaldson (historian)
Triple: [Donaldson, hasNotableBearer, Gordon Donaldson (historian)]
Generated description
Gordon Donaldson was a prominent 20th-century Scottish historian and academic, best known for his authoritative works on Scottish history and his role as Historiographer Royal in Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon Donaldson (historian)
Target entity description: Gordon Donaldson was a prominent 20th-century Scottish historian and academic, best known for his authoritative works on Scottish history and his role as Historiographer Royal in Scotland.
  • A. Robert Donaldson
    Robert Donaldson is a notable figure in whose honor the Donaldson Award was established, recognizing significant contributions in his field.
  • B. Alistair C. Crombie
    Alistair C. Crombie was a prominent historian of science known for his influential work on the development of scientific thought in Western culture.
  • C. Alisdair Stewart
    Alisdair Stewart is a central character in the 1993 film "The Piano," known as the emotionally complex husband whose relationship with the mute pianist Ada drives much of the drama.
  • D. Robert Dundas Duncan
    Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Brian Harrison (historian)
    Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91577a03c81909add7a5d7324a648 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f682397c819085a86a98e079660b completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f5fdea1afc8190b39557fdc571e300 completed May 2, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f5feeaf2e48190995f282b02a9caaf completed May 2, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.