Triple
T18124132
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI |
E433823
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | 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: William Robertson | Statement: [The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, author, William Robertson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Robertson Context triple: [The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, author, 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.
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.
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C.
George Campbell
George Campbell was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and theologian best known for his influential role in the Scottish Enlightenment and his defense of common sense in human knowledge and religious belief.
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D.
A. O. Hume
A. O. Hume was a British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist best known as one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
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E.
William Watt
William Watt was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria and later as a senior federal minister and acting Prime Minister during World War I.
- 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.