Triple

T1553774
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kenneth MacAlpin E33153 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Ailpín mac Echdach
Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
E183869 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: Ailpín mac Echdach | Statement: [Kenneth MacAlpin, father, Ailpín mac Echdach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ailpín mac Echdach
Context triple: [Kenneth MacAlpin, father, Ailpín mac Echdach]
  • A. Áed Find
    Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
  • B. MacJohn
    MacJohn is a surname variant of Johnson, typically reflecting a Gaelic-influenced patronymic form meaning "son of John."
  • C. Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
    Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
  • D. Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
    Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
  • E. Eóganán mac Óengusa
    Eóganán mac Óengusa was a 9th-century king of the Picts who ruled in what is now Scotland shortly before the rise of Kenneth MacAlpin and the formation of the Kingdom of Alba.
  • 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: Ailpín mac Echdach
Triple: [Kenneth MacAlpin, father, Ailpín mac Echdach]
Generated description
Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ailpín mac Echdach
Target entity description: Ailpín mac Echdach was a 9th-century Scottish noble traditionally regarded as the father of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king to unite the Picts and Scots.
  • A. Áed Find
    Áed Find was a king of Dál Riata in the 8th century, remembered in later tradition as an important ancestor of the Scottish royal line.
  • B. MacJohn
    MacJohn is a surname variant of Johnson, typically reflecting a Gaelic-influenced patronymic form meaning "son of John."
  • C. Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
    Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
  • D. Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
    Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
  • E. Eóganán mac Óengusa
    Eóganán mac Óengusa was a 9th-century king of the Picts who ruled in what is now Scotland shortly before the rise of Kenneth MacAlpin and the formation of the Kingdom of Alba.
  • 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_69a885ee6db8819099502bc5ce8af881 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9086c96bc8190bed8b290fa16f21b completed March 5, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad58b7e1088190af92bc0cc8fddfbe completed March 8, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad594334448190a3e8601541be00dd completed March 8, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad5a4ccf5481908e8e68c74be9c19e completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.