Triple

T13512002
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumfries Academy E322662 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Jardine Gresson
William Jardine Gresson was a British merchant and politician in colonial Hong Kong, known for his role in the trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. and his service on the Legislative and Executive Councils.
E1166173 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 Jardine Gresson | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine Gresson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jardine Gresson
Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine Gresson]
  • A. Samuel Hubbard Scudder
    Samuel Hubbard Scudder was a 19th-century American entomologist and paleontologist known for his pioneering work on butterflies, grasshoppers, and fossil insects.
  • B. Edward L. Hedden
    Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
  • C. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • D. George Brown Goode
    George Brown Goode was an American ichthyologist and museum administrator who played a key role in the development of the Smithsonian Institution and the professionalization of museum practices in the late 19th century.
  • E. George G. Scudder
    George G. Scudder is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Scudder surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • 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 Jardine Gresson
Triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine Gresson]
Generated description
William Jardine Gresson was a British merchant and politician in colonial Hong Kong, known for his role in the trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. and his service on the Legislative and Executive Councils.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jardine Gresson
Target entity description: William Jardine Gresson was a British merchant and politician in colonial Hong Kong, known for his role in the trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. and his service on the Legislative and Executive Councils.
  • A. Samuel Hubbard Scudder
    Samuel Hubbard Scudder was a 19th-century American entomologist and paleontologist known for his pioneering work on butterflies, grasshoppers, and fossil insects.
  • B. Edward L. Hedden
    Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
  • C. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • D. George Brown Goode
    George Brown Goode was an American ichthyologist and museum administrator who played a key role in the development of the Smithsonian Institution and the professionalization of museum practices in the late 19th century.
  • E. George G. Scudder
    George G. Scudder is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Scudder surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf86a6208190be8c18f7a0158f23 completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff56ade75c8190b556c3b0ba692a96 completed May 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff5858f6f88190a94a871c831e4f78 completed May 9, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff589de85c8190abc9c888ac90cf52 completed May 9, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.