Triple

T14090027
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clan MacLachlan E339102 entity
Predicate hasSept P60340 FINISHED
Object McLachlin
McLachlin is a Scottish surname associated as a sept with Clan MacLachlan, reflecting shared ancestral and cultural ties to that Highland clan.
E1080225 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: McLachlin | Statement: [Clan MacLachlan, hasSept, McLachlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McLachlin
Context triple: [Clan MacLachlan, hasSept, McLachlin]
  • A. Louise L’Heureux
    Louise L’Heureux was the wife of prominent Quebec premier and sovereigntist leader René Lévesque.
  • B. Norman Paterson
    Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
  • C. Louise Arbour
    Louise Arbour is a Canadian jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights known for her pioneering work in international criminal law and human rights advocacy.
  • D. Kim Campbell
    Kim Campbell is a Canadian politician and lawyer who briefly served as Canada's first and only female prime minister in 1993.
  • E. Adrienne Clarkson
    Adrienne Clarkson is a Canadian journalist, author, and stateswoman who served as the 26th Governor General of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
  • 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: McLachlin
Triple: [Clan MacLachlan, hasSept, McLachlin]
Generated description
McLachlin is a Scottish surname associated as a sept with Clan MacLachlan, reflecting shared ancestral and cultural ties to that Highland clan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McLachlin
Target entity description: McLachlin is a Scottish surname associated as a sept with Clan MacLachlan, reflecting shared ancestral and cultural ties to that Highland clan.
  • A. Louise L’Heureux
    Louise L’Heureux was the wife of prominent Quebec premier and sovereigntist leader René Lévesque.
  • B. Norman Paterson
    Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
  • C. Louise Arbour
    Louise Arbour is a Canadian jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights known for her pioneering work in international criminal law and human rights advocacy.
  • D. Kim Campbell
    Kim Campbell is a Canadian politician and lawyer who briefly served as Canada's first and only female prime minister in 1993.
  • E. Adrienne Clarkson
    Adrienne Clarkson is a Canadian journalist, author, and stateswoman who served as the 26th Governor General of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
  • 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_69d81c687b0c819087fd9ed4198403f8 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de5ee3213c8190af2853a2a5b302a2 completed April 14, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcd0a7aab88190949cf1fd8e11b050 completed May 7, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcd5ad82388190a196d811734cdca2 completed May 7, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcd63a114881909ff7b2df937d24df completed May 7, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:21 p.m.