Triple

T13355463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Semple E318679 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Semple
William Semple is a Scottish soldier and Jesuit often noted for his involvement in late 16th- and early 17th-century Catholic political and religious activities in Europe.
 E1047994 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 Semple | Statement: [Semple, hasNotableBearer, William Semple]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Semple
Context triple: [Semple, hasNotableBearer, William Semple]
  • A. Robert Semple
    Robert Semple was an early California pioneer, printer, and political leader who played a key role in the transition of California to statehood.
  • B. James Alexander Semple
    James Alexander Semple was a notable individual bearing the Semple surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited among its distinguished bearers.
  • C. Robert James Semple
    Robert James Semple was the first husband of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, whom she married as a young missionary.
  • D. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • E. Julian Bannerman
    Julian Bannerman is a British garden designer known for his romantic, theatrical landscapes created in partnership with his wife, Isabel Bannerman.
  • 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 Semple
Triple: [Semple, hasNotableBearer, William Semple]
Generated description
William Semple is a Scottish soldier and Jesuit often noted for his involvement in late 16th- and early 17th-century Catholic political and religious activities in Europe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Semple
Target entity description: William Semple is a Scottish soldier and Jesuit often noted for his involvement in late 16th- and early 17th-century Catholic political and religious activities in Europe.
  • A. Robert Semple
    Robert Semple was an early California pioneer, printer, and political leader who played a key role in the transition of California to statehood.
  • B. James Alexander Semple
    James Alexander Semple was a notable individual bearing the Semple surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited among its distinguished bearers.
  • C. Robert James Semple
    Robert James Semple was the first husband of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, whom she married as a young missionary.
  • D. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • E. Julian Bannerman
    Julian Bannerman is a British garden designer known for his romantic, theatrical landscapes created in partnership with his wife, Isabel Bannerman.
  • 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_69d806b7bbac8190b85278c87fa7aff3 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99f1ef94c81909a59b7c3f77d3335 completed April 11, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f76b9c0c088190ba18b5c631bcc365 completed May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7763fc23c819098d46ab0906b8764 completed May 3, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7792601748190ba2b95fbfc9f8a3a completed May 3, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:32 p.m.