Triple

T13551320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Stevenson E323650 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Alan Stevenson
Alan Stevenson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer, known for constructing many of Scotland’s most important lighthouses.
E1059815 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: Alan Stevenson | Statement: [Thomas Stevenson, relative, Alan Stevenson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Stevenson
Context triple: [Thomas Stevenson, relative, Alan Stevenson]
  • A. David Stevenson
    David Stevenson was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and member of the famous Stevenson family of civil engineers.
  • B. Ben Stevenson
    Ben Stevenson is the central character of the American sitcom "The Gregory Hines Show," around whose family and personal life the series revolves.
  • C. Alan Manning
    Alan Manning is a British labour economist and professor at the London School of Economics, known for his influential research on wage inequality, monopsony in labour markets, and immigration policy.
  • D. John Tyrrell
    John Tyrrell was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often appearing in comedies and crime dramas.
  • E. Daniel Butterfield
    Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
  • 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: Alan Stevenson
Triple: [Thomas Stevenson, relative, Alan Stevenson]
Generated description
Alan Stevenson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer, known for constructing many of Scotland’s most important lighthouses.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Stevenson
Target entity description: Alan Stevenson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer, known for constructing many of Scotland’s most important lighthouses.
  • A. David Stevenson
    David Stevenson was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and member of the famous Stevenson family of civil engineers.
  • B. Ben Stevenson
    Ben Stevenson is the central character of the American sitcom "The Gregory Hines Show," around whose family and personal life the series revolves.
  • C. Alan Manning
    Alan Manning is a British labour economist and professor at the London School of Economics, known for his influential research on wage inequality, monopsony in labour markets, and immigration policy.
  • D. John Tyrrell
    John Tyrrell was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often appearing in comedies and crime dramas.
  • E. Daniel Butterfield
    Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
  • 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_69d8076776248190bdf0d4fa1f85a5fc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaff0a6548190b8cde5084cef0061 completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7a838581c819092a195f60673b743 completed May 3, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7a9f5549c81908a1a0b080acc3396 completed May 3, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7aafceea881908737a3d7613db2d5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:07 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:46 p.m.