Triple

T13512007
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumfries Academy E322662 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object James Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
James Harkness was a prominent Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
 E1044489 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 Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)]
  • A. John Maxwell (Archbishop of Glasgow)
    John Maxwell was a 17th-century Scottish clergyman who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and was a prominent supporter of royal and episcopal authority in the Church of Scotland.
  • B. James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow)
    James Beaton was a prominent 16th-century Scottish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and became a leading opponent of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
  • C. Henry Wardlaw
    Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
  • D. Thomas Erskine
    Thomas Erskine was a prominent British lawyer and Whig politician renowned for his eloquent advocacy of civil liberties and landmark defenses of free speech in late 18th-century England.
  • E. James Macaulay (judge)
    James Macaulay was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a key role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
  • 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 Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
Triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)]
Generated description
James Harkness was a prominent Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Harkness (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
Target entity description: James Harkness was a prominent Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
  • A. John Maxwell (Archbishop of Glasgow)
    John Maxwell was a 17th-century Scottish clergyman who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and was a prominent supporter of royal and episcopal authority in the Church of Scotland.
  • B. James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow)
    James Beaton was a prominent 16th-century Scottish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and became a leading opponent of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
  • C. Henry Wardlaw
    Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
  • D. Thomas Erskine
    Thomas Erskine was a prominent British lawyer and Whig politician renowned for his eloquent advocacy of civil liberties and landmark defenses of free speech in late 18th-century England.
  • E. James Macaulay (judge)
    James Macaulay was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a key role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
  • 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_69f75492676c81909602745e2b6436cb completed May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7555173d08190be887e81c148192e completed May 3, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75675df788190b4aa562fe0bc1d75 completed May 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.