Triple

T16615040
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject RSL Ondaatje Prize E403674 entity
Predicate notableWinner P2766 FINISHED
Object Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer and academic best known for his lyrical books on landscape, nature, and place, such as "Mountains of the Mind" and "The Old Ways."
 E1223628 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: Robert Macfarlane | Statement: [RSL Ondaatje Prize, notableWinner, Robert Macfarlane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Macfarlane
Context triple: [RSL Ondaatje Prize, notableWinner, Robert Macfarlane]
  • A. Nan Shepherd
    Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
  • B. David Haskell
    David Haskell is an American journalist and media executive best known for serving as editor-in-chief of New York Magazine.
  • C. Robert McFarlane
    Robert McFarlane was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and national security official best known for serving in the Reagan administration and playing a central role in the Iran-Contra affair.
  • D. Jonathan Raban
    Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, and critic renowned for his reflective, genre-blending works on place, identity, and journey.
  • E. David Nuttall
    David Nuttall is a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Bury North from 2010 to 2017.
  • 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: Robert Macfarlane
Triple: [RSL Ondaatje Prize, notableWinner, Robert Macfarlane]
Generated description
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer and academic best known for his lyrical books on landscape, nature, and place, such as "Mountains of the Mind" and "The Old Ways."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Macfarlane
Target entity description: Robert Macfarlane is a British writer and academic best known for his lyrical books on landscape, nature, and place, such as "Mountains of the Mind" and "The Old Ways."
  • A. Nan Shepherd
    Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
  • B. David Haskell
    David Haskell is an American journalist and media executive best known for serving as editor-in-chief of New York Magazine.
  • C. Robert McFarlane
    Robert McFarlane was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and national security official best known for serving in the Reagan administration and playing a central role in the Iran-Contra affair.
  • D. Jonathan Raban
    Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, and critic renowned for his reflective, genre-blending works on place, identity, and journey.
  • E. David Nuttall
    David Nuttall is a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Bury North from 2010 to 2017.
  • 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_69d883897eb481909eaaa088ba9918d9 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3609935a88190baa56f3a42b2ecd1 completed April 18, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0075aeaa9881908bdef0f9f2b52e60 completed May 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a007705f57881908b07a20ae8957c64 completed May 10, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007b18f0b08190a9ddc6ad7358d6b8 completed May 10, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:17 a.m.