Triple
T2609326
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | An Essay on the History of Civil Society |
E58736
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | Adam Ferguson |
E57891
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Adam Ferguson | Statement: [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, author, Adam Ferguson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adam Ferguson Context triple: [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, author, Adam Ferguson]
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A.
Adam Ferguson
chosen
Adam Ferguson was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian, often regarded as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and an early theorist of civil society.
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B.
William Robertson
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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C.
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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D.
John Millar
John Millar was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and legal scholar known for his influential work on jurisprudence, political economy, and the development of civil society.
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E.
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun was a Scottish writer, politician, and patriot of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his influential republican ideas and opposition to the 1707 Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ab4ac3523881909679750c9f8c2dec |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd868acc481909444c99a621cdbec |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:48 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af83e1efb88190b79c2c6ac0e87647 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 2:37 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.