Triple

T13896240
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zachary Macaulay E334093 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Colin Macaulay
Colin Macaulay was a British army officer, linguist, and abolitionist active in India and the broader British Empire during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E1078500 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: Colin Macaulay | Statement: [Zachary Macaulay, hasRelative, Colin Macaulay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colin Macaulay
Context triple: [Zachary Macaulay, hasRelative, Colin Macaulay]
  • A. Colin Macfarquhar
    Colin Macfarquhar was an 18th-century Scottish printer and publisher best known for co-founding the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • B. Sean Macaulay
    Sean Macaulay is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the inspirational sports biopic film "Eddie the Eagle."
  • C. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • E. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
  • 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: Colin Macaulay
Triple: [Zachary Macaulay, hasRelative, Colin Macaulay]
Generated description
Colin Macaulay was a British army officer, linguist, and abolitionist active in India and the broader British Empire during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colin Macaulay
Target entity description: Colin Macaulay was a British army officer, linguist, and abolitionist active in India and the broader British Empire during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. Colin Macfarquhar
    Colin Macfarquhar was an 18th-century Scottish printer and publisher best known for co-founding the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • B. Sean Macaulay
    Sean Macaulay is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the inspirational sports biopic film "Eddie the Eagle."
  • C. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • E. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
  • 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_69d81c5dd2d48190b7a5fc1e009de936 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de25d72c6c819093bf9c43136839d4 completed April 14, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcb649c12c819086e85d1dc49624f1 completed May 7, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcc64653bc8190b9555660f1eeb32c completed May 7, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcc6e9b82481908491ca7acd30c95d completed May 7, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:15 p.m.