Triple
T18124030
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | History of Scotland 1542–1603 |
E433820
|
entity |
| Predicate | writtenBy |
P806
|
FINISHED |
| Object | historian William Robertson |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: historian William Robertson | Statement: [History of Scotland 1542–1603, writtenBy, historian William Robertson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: historian William Robertson Context triple: [History of Scotland 1542–1603, writtenBy, historian William Robertson]
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A.
William Robertson
chosen
William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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B.
John Dalrymple (historian)
John Dalrymple was an 18th-century Scottish historian and lawyer best known for his multi-volume work "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland," which drew on previously unpublished state papers.
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C.
William P. Lecky
William P. Lecky was an architect best known for designing the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
John Maitland (historian)
John Maitland was a historian known for his scholarly contributions to the study and interpretation of historical events and periods.
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E.
Thomas Hume
Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b909e8cc81908df4cc2b8ea6d11f |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4ddebeae88190ae50e9a258b34dbe |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:51 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:28 a.m.