Triple

T1417183
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Urquhart E31943 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
 E218048 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 Urquhart | Statement: [Urquhart, notableBearer, Thomas Urquhart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Urquhart
Context triple: [Urquhart, notableBearer, Thomas Urquhart]
  • A. William Kerr
    William Kerr is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including "The Five-Year Engagement."
  • B. Archibald Blair
    Archibald Blair was a British naval officer and surveyor associated with the early colonial exploration and development of the Andaman Islands.
  • C. David Dickson
    David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
  • D. John Lyon
    John Lyon was a 16th-century English landowner and philanthropist best known for endowing and founding Harrow School, one of England’s leading public schools.
  • E. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • 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 Urquhart
Triple: [Urquhart, notableBearer, Thomas Urquhart]
Generated description
Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Urquhart
Target entity description: Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • A. William Kerr
    William Kerr is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including "The Five-Year Engagement."
  • B. Archibald Blair
    Archibald Blair was a British naval officer and surveyor associated with the early colonial exploration and development of the Andaman Islands.
  • C. David Dickson
    David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
  • D. John Lyon
    John Lyon was a 16th-century English landowner and philanthropist best known for endowing and founding Harrow School, one of England’s leading public schools.
  • E. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c403ccdc8190b2a5fda037b6ea34 completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfb8a58ec81908b2bb5c27283bafa completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6aa96c81909ae3cff6c7ab7f79 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfcebbc808190a74f9082636bce11 completed March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.