Triple

T12789262
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Foyle College E305713 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object James MacCullagh
James MacCullagh was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist known for his influential work on the wave theory of light and the dynamics of elastic solids.
 E1002750 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 MacCullagh | Statement: [Foyle College, hasNotableAlumnus, James MacCullagh]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James MacCullagh
Context triple: [Foyle College, hasNotableAlumnus, James MacCullagh]
  • A. Thomas Russell
    Thomas Russell was an Irish revolutionary leader and close associate of Wolfe Tone who played a key role in organizing and promoting the radical republican aims of the Society of United Irishmen in the late 18th century.
  • B. Wolf O'Donnell
    Wolf O'Donnell is a recurring antagonist and rival mercenary leader in Nintendo's Star Fox series, known as the cunning commander of the Star Wolf team and chief rival to Fox McCloud.
  • C. John Boyle
    John Boyle was an American jurist and politician from Kentucky, notably serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the early 19th century.
  • D. John MacBride
    John MacBride was an Irish nationalist and revolutionary best known for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising and subsequent execution by the British.
  • E. Hugh O'Leary
    Hugh O'Leary is a British accountant best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
  • 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 MacCullagh
Triple: [Foyle College, hasNotableAlumnus, James MacCullagh]
Generated description
James MacCullagh was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist known for his influential work on the wave theory of light and the dynamics of elastic solids.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James MacCullagh
Target entity description: James MacCullagh was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist known for his influential work on the wave theory of light and the dynamics of elastic solids.
  • A. Thomas Russell
    Thomas Russell was an Irish revolutionary leader and close associate of Wolfe Tone who played a key role in organizing and promoting the radical republican aims of the Society of United Irishmen in the late 18th century.
  • B. Wolf O'Donnell
    Wolf O'Donnell is a recurring antagonist and rival mercenary leader in Nintendo's Star Fox series, known as the cunning commander of the Star Wolf team and chief rival to Fox McCloud.
  • C. John Boyle
    John Boyle was an American jurist and politician from Kentucky, notably serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the early 19th century.
  • D. John MacBride
    John MacBride was an Irish nationalist and revolutionary best known for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising and subsequent execution by the British.
  • E. Hugh O'Leary
    Hugh O'Leary is a British accountant best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e6a61f48190972e241e70bc392c completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68508e4488190bb57a1ade93987ab completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f687ae18c08190a94dca38bb69d10f completed May 2, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68884ed348190a1b2c89b1d655fa9 completed May 2, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.