Triple

T1483664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh E29415 entity
Predicate underwentRestorationBy P13190 FINISHED
Object William Burn
William Burn was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential country house designs and contributions to the Scottish Baronial style.
E169173 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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 Burn | Statement: [St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, underwentRestorationBy, William Burn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Burn
Context triple: [St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, underwentRestorationBy, William Burn]
  • A. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • E. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • 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 Burn
Triple: [St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, underwentRestorationBy, William Burn]
Generated description
William Burn was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential country house designs and contributions to the Scottish Baronial style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Burn
Target entity description: William Burn was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential country house designs and contributions to the Scottish Baronial style.
  • A. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Hulton
    William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
  • E. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: underwentRestorationBy
Context triple: [St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, underwentRestorationBy, William Burn]
  • A. restoredBy chosen
    Indicates that an entity has been returned to a previous or improved state through the actions or intervention of another entity.
  • B. reconstructionOrRestorationDate
    Indicates the date on which an entity was reconstructed or restored after damage, alteration, or deterioration.
  • C. hasRestoration
    Indicates that an entity has undergone, is undergoing, or is associated with a process of repair, renewal, or restoration.
  • D. restored
    Indicates that an entity has returned another entity to a previous or improved state, condition, or position after damage, loss, or alteration.
  • E. renovatedBy
    Indicates that an entity has been improved, restored, or updated through renovation work performed by another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c679714c8190ac53630fb49e19c5 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15b3a8548190b484a15757aee7b1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad16bc23808190ba26aa98764f3186 completed March 8, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad172912488190b77c77e4e61e0183 completed March 8, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4c486eacc81909c272f9bdf50a7c3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.