Triple
T2219139
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Macmillan Publishers |
E48100
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alexander Macmillan
Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
|
E259551
|
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: Alexander Macmillan | Statement: [Macmillan Publishers, foundedBy, Alexander Macmillan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Macmillan Context triple: [Macmillan Publishers, foundedBy, Alexander Macmillan]
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A.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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B.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
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C.
Philip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Alastair Grahame
Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
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E.
Colin Macfarquhar
Colin Macfarquhar was an 18th-century Scottish printer and publisher best known for co-founding the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- 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: Alexander Macmillan Triple: [Macmillan Publishers, foundedBy, Alexander Macmillan]
Generated description
Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Macmillan Target entity description: Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
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A.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
-
B.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
-
C.
Philip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
-
D.
Alastair Grahame
Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
-
E.
Colin Macfarquhar
Colin Macfarquhar was an 18th-century Scottish printer and publisher best known for co-founding the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- 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_69a88aa1ee708190862c8c378c41e9eb |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc011d50c8190b1c375cc633f8189 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aea85f62e081909f92b1a98b688104 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69aea90980848190bbb59a848a02adf9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:03 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69aea96cd71881908ae5acd4210c6909 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:05 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.