Triple

T13604143
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dewar E325016 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Thomas Dewar
Thomas Dewar was a prominent Scottish whisky distiller and businessman, best known for co-founding the Dewar’s Scotch whisky brand and helping popularize blended Scotch worldwide.
 E1053138 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: Thomas Dewar | Statement: [Dewar, usedBy, Thomas Dewar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Dewar
Context triple: [Dewar, usedBy, Thomas Dewar]
  • A. John Dewar
    John Dewar is a Scottish whisky distiller best known for founding the Dewar’s blended Scotch whisky brand.
  • B. John MacInnes
    John MacInnes was a highly successful and influential college ice hockey coach best known for building Michigan Tech into a national powerhouse during his long tenure.
  • C. Robert Sympson Jameson
    Robert Sympson Jameson was a 19th-century British-born lawyer and colonial judge who served as a prominent judicial and political figure in Upper Canada.
  • D. William McEwan
    William McEwan is a son of the acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan.
  • E. Robert Sturgeon
    Robert Sturgeon is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Sturgeon.
  • 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: Thomas Dewar
Triple: [Dewar, usedBy, Thomas Dewar]
Generated description
Thomas Dewar was a prominent Scottish whisky distiller and businessman, best known for co-founding the Dewar’s Scotch whisky brand and helping popularize blended Scotch worldwide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Dewar
Target entity description: Thomas Dewar was a prominent Scottish whisky distiller and businessman, best known for co-founding the Dewar’s Scotch whisky brand and helping popularize blended Scotch worldwide.
  • A. John Dewar
    John Dewar is a Scottish whisky distiller best known for founding the Dewar’s blended Scotch whisky brand.
  • B. John MacInnes
    John MacInnes was a highly successful and influential college ice hockey coach best known for building Michigan Tech into a national powerhouse during his long tenure.
  • C. Robert Sympson Jameson
    Robert Sympson Jameson was a 19th-century British-born lawyer and colonial judge who served as a prominent judicial and political figure in Upper Canada.
  • D. William McEwan
    William McEwan is a son of the acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan.
  • E. Robert Sturgeon
    Robert Sturgeon is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Sturgeon.
  • 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_69d80769eaf081909d82f44e484d6113 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb07ca07481909c45da551ea61ab4 completed April 12, 2026, 2:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f78ae394748190b6a0f9a085b7dea6 completed May 3, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f78c0030e481909c20f21ddaa480dc completed May 3, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78d6f02c48190a8f3bc4cb71910a0 completed May 3, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.