Triple

T14929075
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clan Kerr E372208 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst
Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst was a prominent Scottish border laird and leading member of the Kerr family, influential in the turbulent politics and warfare along the Anglo-Scottish frontier.
E1160619 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: Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst | Statement: [Clan Kerr, notableMember, Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst
Context triple: [Clan Kerr, notableMember, Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst]
  • A. Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehirst
    Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehirst was a prominent Scottish Border laird and military leader of the Kerr family, known for his role in the turbulent Anglo-Scottish border conflicts of the 16th century.
  • B. George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh
    George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh was a 17th-century Scottish lawyer and Lord Advocate, notorious for his harsh persecution of Covenanters and remembered as one of Scotland’s most feared legal figures.
  • C. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
    Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a 17th-century Scottish laird, writer, and translator best known for his eccentric prose and his celebrated translation of Rabelais into English.
  • D. Laird of Kinnaird
    The Laird of Kinnaird is the hereditary Scottish landowning lord associated with the Kinnaird estate, historically held by members of the Carnegie family.
  • E. Archibald Stirling of Keir
    Archibald Stirling of Keir was a Scottish laird and landowner from the prominent Stirling family, known as the father of SAS founder David Stirling.
  • 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: Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst
Triple: [Clan Kerr, notableMember, Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst]
Generated description
Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst was a prominent Scottish border laird and leading member of the Kerr family, influential in the turbulent politics and warfare along the Anglo-Scottish frontier.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst
Target entity description: Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst was a prominent Scottish border laird and leading member of the Kerr family, influential in the turbulent politics and warfare along the Anglo-Scottish frontier.
  • A. Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehirst
    Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehirst was a prominent Scottish Border laird and military leader of the Kerr family, known for his role in the turbulent Anglo-Scottish border conflicts of the 16th century.
  • B. George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh
    George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh was a 17th-century Scottish lawyer and Lord Advocate, notorious for his harsh persecution of Covenanters and remembered as one of Scotland’s most feared legal figures.
  • C. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
    Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a 17th-century Scottish laird, writer, and translator best known for his eccentric prose and his celebrated translation of Rabelais into English.
  • D. Laird of Kinnaird
    The Laird of Kinnaird is the hereditary Scottish landowning lord associated with the Kinnaird estate, historically held by members of the Carnegie family.
  • E. Archibald Stirling of Keir
    Archibald Stirling of Keir was a Scottish laird and landowner from the prominent Stirling family, known as the father of SAS founder David Stirling.
  • 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_69d85cc9da0c81908d583ca3f63a3908 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded634e67881909daec9eaef188d09 completed April 15, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3647bda881909a83311926096a29 completed May 9, 2026, 1:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff376dac388190ab3b7e3553d2de29 completed May 9, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff382f1bbc8190810d0d825430f9ea completed May 9, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:36 a.m.