Triple

T16408242
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton E398490 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton
William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Hamilton family who held one of the highest-ranking peerage titles in Scotland.
E1259773 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: William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton | Statement: [James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, father, William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton
Context triple: [James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, father, William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton]
  • A. James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
    James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a key role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the complex power struggles surrounding Charles I.
  • B. William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
    William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of the highest-ranking titles in the Scottish aristocracy during a period of significant political upheaval.
  • C. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
    James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who played a key role in the political and military struggles surrounding King Charles I.
  • D. Archibald Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
    Archibald Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who became the first to hold the ducal title of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland.
  • E. William Douglas-Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Hamilton
    William Douglas-Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist who served as a leading supporter of the Stuart monarchy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was killed at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
  • 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 Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton
Triple: [James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, father, William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton]
Generated description
William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Hamilton family who held one of the highest-ranking peerage titles in Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton
Target entity description: William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Hamilton family who held one of the highest-ranking peerage titles in Scotland.
  • A. James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
    James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a key role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the complex power struggles surrounding Charles I.
  • B. William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
    William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of the highest-ranking titles in the Scottish aristocracy during a period of significant political upheaval.
  • C. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
    James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who played a key role in the political and military struggles surrounding King Charles I.
  • D. Archibald Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
    Archibald Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who became the first to hold the ducal title of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland.
  • E. William Douglas-Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Hamilton
    William Douglas-Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist who served as a leading supporter of the Stuart monarchy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was killed at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
  • 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_69d87f2950248190bc8ad9b9bebdc8c8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32870e44c8190aae7bc6e6022ceb7 completed April 18, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0179313470819090351e937ea34701 completed May 11, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01798f94948190ae8021e5d4119ca1 completed May 11, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0179e4d5148190bf8049a5e0063852 completed May 11, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.