Triple

T12616350
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Secretary of State of Scotland E301263 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a significant role in the government of Scotland around the time of the 1707 Acts of Union.
E1031363 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: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale | Statement: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
Context triple: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale]
  • A. 1st Earl of Rosslyn
    The 1st Earl of Rosslyn was a Scottish peerage title created in the late 18th century for Alexander Wedderburn, a prominent lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
  • B. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
    John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
  • C. James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
    James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and military commander who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • D. James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
    James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th century, best known as the son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and a member of the extended Stuart royal family.
  • E. John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
    John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, was a prominent Scottish soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senior British commander during the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • 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: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
Triple: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale]
Generated description
William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a significant role in the government of Scotland around the time of the 1707 Acts of Union.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
Target entity description: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a significant role in the government of Scotland around the time of the 1707 Acts of Union.
  • A. 1st Earl of Rosslyn
    The 1st Earl of Rosslyn was a Scottish peerage title created in the late 18th century for Alexander Wedderburn, a prominent lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
  • B. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
    John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
  • C. James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
    James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and military commander who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • D. James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
    James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th century, best known as the son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and a member of the extended Stuart royal family.
  • E. John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
    John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, was a prominent Scottish soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senior British commander during the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • 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_69d7bdeaf49c8190b13800111fa77ea3 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d960c63ea48190ae1aae9280a023a6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a16408081909097d7e3ab750a27 completed May 3, 2026, 8:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70aec0e4481909f6ea77136f2e970 completed May 3, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70bcb8b60819087afe37a3919d26b completed May 3, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:12 p.m.