Triple

T13512019
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumfries Academy E322662 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object James Harkness (Moderator)
James Harkness was a Scottish mathematician and academic known for his work in complex analysis and for serving as a moderator in the Church of Scotland.
E1044495 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) | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (Moderator)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Harkness (Moderator)
Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (Moderator)]
  • A. Gary Harkness
    Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
  • B. Tim Hackett
    Tim Hackett is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hackett, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • C. Taylor Hughes
    Taylor Hughes is a member of the Hughes family and the sibling of American Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes.
  • D. Michael Harnett
    Michael Harnett is the birth name of Michael Hartnett, a prominent Irish poet known for his lyrical work in both English and Irish.
  • E. Alex Hawkins
    Alex Hawkins was an American football player and broadcaster who served as a television announcer for the 1974 World Bowl.
  • 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)
Triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (Moderator)]
Generated description
James Harkness was a Scottish mathematician and academic known for his work in complex analysis and for serving as a moderator in the Church of Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Harkness (Moderator)
Target entity description: James Harkness was a Scottish mathematician and academic known for his work in complex analysis and for serving as a moderator in the Church of Scotland.
  • A. Gary Harkness
    Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
  • B. Tim Hackett
    Tim Hackett is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hackett, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • C. Taylor Hughes
    Taylor Hughes is a member of the Hughes family and the sibling of American Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes.
  • D. Michael Harnett
    Michael Harnett is the birth name of Michael Hartnett, a prominent Irish poet known for his lyrical work in both English and Irish.
  • E. Alex Hawkins
    Alex Hawkins was an American football player and broadcaster who served as a television announcer for the 1974 World Bowl.
  • 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.