Triple

T1364868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Burns E29178 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Nicol Burns
William Nicol Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns who became a customs officer and spent much of his life in London.
E234335 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 Nicol Burns | Statement: [Robert Burns, child, William Nicol Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nicol Burns
Context triple: [Robert Burns, child, William Nicol Burns]
  • A. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • B. J. Campbell Bruce
    J. Campbell Bruce was an American journalist and author best known for writing the non-fiction book "Escape from Alcatraz," which chronicled real-life escape attempts from the infamous prison.
  • C. John P. C. Knox
    John P. C. Knox was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and author known for his religious writings and historical works on the church.
  • D. William McGregor
    William McGregor was a Scottish football administrator best known for initiating and organizing the creation of the English Football League in 1888.
  • E. William Bowen Campbell
    William Bowen Campbell was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as governor of Tennessee and fought in both the Mexican–American War and the Civil War.
  • 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 Nicol Burns
Triple: [Robert Burns, child, William Nicol Burns]
Generated description
William Nicol Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns who became a customs officer and spent much of his life in London.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nicol Burns
Target entity description: William Nicol Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns who became a customs officer and spent much of his life in London.
  • A. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • B. J. Campbell Bruce
    J. Campbell Bruce was an American journalist and author best known for writing the non-fiction book "Escape from Alcatraz," which chronicled real-life escape attempts from the infamous prison.
  • C. John P. C. Knox
    John P. C. Knox was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and author known for his religious writings and historical works on the church.
  • D. William McGregor
    William McGregor was a Scottish football administrator best known for initiating and organizing the creation of the English Football League in 1888.
  • E. William Bowen Campbell
    William Bowen Campbell was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as governor of Tennessee and fought in both the Mexican–American War and the Civil War.
  • 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_69a498d77abc8190913bf57e5f51d2c4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c2b725248190bdfdc0031ddc477f completed March 1, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3037944c8190b2ced5f5ca539260 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae3149922c819085fb2af51d53304c completed March 9, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31a67eb08190a3ef64e83301fabc completed March 9, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:57 p.m.