Triple

T12187885
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject County of Richmond E290381 entity
Predicate heldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Alan the Black
Alan the Black was an Anglo-Breton nobleman of the 11th–12th century, known as a member of the Breton ducal family who became a prominent landholder in northern England after the Norman Conquest.
 E967837 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: Alan the Black | Statement: [County of Richmond, heldBy, Alan the Black]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan the Black
Context triple: [County of Richmond, heldBy, Alan the Black]
  • A. Oswald the Tiger
    Oswald the Tiger is the costumed tiger mascot representing Occidental College at its athletic events and campus activities.
  • B. Archibald the Grim
    Archibald the Grim was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and Lord of Galloway, noted for his military prowess and prominent role in the Douglas family’s rise.
  • C. Alfred
    Alfred is a masculine given name of English origin, historically popular in Anglo-Saxon and later English-speaking cultures.
  • D. Martin the Humane
    Martin the Humane was a late 14th- and early 15th-century King of Aragon and last monarch of the House of Barcelona, noted for his relatively just and conciliatory rule.
  • E. Thomas l’Obscur
    Thomas l’Obscur is an experimental, philosophical novel by Maurice Blanchot that explores themes of perception, language, and the dissolution of self through dense, abstract prose.
  • 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: Alan the Black
Triple: [County of Richmond, heldBy, Alan the Black]
Generated description
Alan the Black was an Anglo-Breton nobleman of the 11th–12th century, known as a member of the Breton ducal family who became a prominent landholder in northern England after the Norman Conquest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan the Black
Target entity description: Alan the Black was an Anglo-Breton nobleman of the 11th–12th century, known as a member of the Breton ducal family who became a prominent landholder in northern England after the Norman Conquest.
  • A. Oswald the Tiger
    Oswald the Tiger is the costumed tiger mascot representing Occidental College at its athletic events and campus activities.
  • B. Archibald the Grim
    Archibald the Grim was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and Lord of Galloway, noted for his military prowess and prominent role in the Douglas family’s rise.
  • C. Alfred
    Alfred is a masculine given name of English origin, historically popular in Anglo-Saxon and later English-speaking cultures.
  • D. Martin the Humane
    Martin the Humane was a late 14th- and early 15th-century King of Aragon and last monarch of the House of Barcelona, noted for his relatively just and conciliatory rule.
  • E. Thomas l’Obscur
    Thomas l’Obscur is an experimental, philosophical novel by Maurice Blanchot that explores themes of perception, language, and the dissolution of self through dense, abstract prose.
  • 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_69d6ab64de5881908d56eb7a75c6cc69 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d916012c2c819085824332ad60059e completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6b0a84c8190ae593e368c13b5a5 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b7e1788190b1df4fdfd96118d0 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f604c4ef7c8190bc128b1aa535744d completed May 2, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.