Triple

T15991034
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balfour E387823 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Mary Balfour
Mary Balfour is a notable individual who shares the Balfour surname, recognized for her association with the historically significant Balfour family name.
E1187250 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: Mary Balfour | Statement: [Balfour, hasNotableBearer, Mary Balfour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Balfour
Context triple: [Balfour, hasNotableBearer, Mary Balfour]
  • A. Elisabeth Farquharson
    Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
  • B. Mary Macgregor
    Mary Macgregor is a timid, impressionable schoolgirl in Muriel Spark’s novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," remembered for her tragic fate and as one of Brodie’s most devoted yet overlooked pupils.
  • C. Isobel Buchanan
    Isobel Buchanan is a Scottish operatic soprano known for her performances with major European opera companies and at international festivals.
  • D. Mary MacGregor
    Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
  • E. Margaret Fraser
    Margaret Fraser was the mother of British Army officer and Special Air Service (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: Mary Balfour
Triple: [Balfour, hasNotableBearer, Mary Balfour]
Generated description
Mary Balfour is a notable individual who shares the Balfour surname, recognized for her association with the historically significant Balfour family name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Balfour
Target entity description: Mary Balfour is a notable individual who shares the Balfour surname, recognized for her association with the historically significant Balfour family name.
  • A. Elisabeth Farquharson
    Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
  • B. Mary Macgregor
    Mary Macgregor is a timid, impressionable schoolgirl in Muriel Spark’s novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," remembered for her tragic fate and as one of Brodie’s most devoted yet overlooked pupils.
  • C. Isobel Buchanan
    Isobel Buchanan is a Scottish operatic soprano known for her performances with major European opera companies and at international festivals.
  • D. Mary MacGregor
    Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
  • E. Margaret Fraser
    Margaret Fraser was the mother of British Army officer and Special Air Service (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_69d86daa562c81908aacc179c0fe8fb5 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e157835cac81909e979f9be281f328 completed April 16, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffc3d3ef2881909213ff608192f1ef completed May 9, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffc47bce748190a651fff307aad88d completed May 9, 2026, 11:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffc4e14e1881909210a78426546e88 completed May 9, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:54 a.m.