Triple

T3013905
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balliol College, Oxford E82286 entity
Predicate hasAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Adam Smith
Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
E4818 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: Adam Smith | Statement: [Balliol College, Oxford, hasAlumnus, Adam Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adam Smith
Context triple: [Balliol College, Oxford, hasAlumnus, Adam Smith]
  • A. Adam Smith
    Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
  • B. David Ricardo
    David Ricardo was a prominent 19th-century British political economist known for his theories of comparative advantage, rent, and distribution in classical economics.
  • C. Jean-Baptiste Say
    Jean-Baptiste Say was a French classical economist best known for formulating Say’s Law, which posits that supply creates its own demand.
  • D. François Quesnay
    François Quesnay was an 18th-century French economist and leading figure of the Physiocratic school, known for his influential economic theories emphasizing agriculture as the source of national wealth.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Adam Smith
Triple: [Balliol College, Oxford, hasAlumnus, Adam Smith]
Generated description
Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adam Smith
Target entity description: Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
  • A. Adam Smith chosen
    Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
  • B. David Ricardo
    David Ricardo was a prominent 19th-century British political economist known for his theories of comparative advantage, rent, and distribution in classical economics.
  • C. Jean-Baptiste Say
    Jean-Baptiste Say was a French classical economist best known for formulating Say’s Law, which posits that supply creates its own demand.
  • D. François Quesnay
    François Quesnay was an 18th-century French economist and leading figure of the Physiocratic school, known for his influential economic theories emphasizing agriculture as the source of national wealth.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a69e8148190a97507740c9d26a8 completed March 8, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e67e2f88190aa7046e93f3e4126 completed March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b12f07ec088190a63e30f8a1f7937a completed March 11, 2026, 8:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1cb6571388190970bae846bfc57a2 completed March 11, 2026, 8:07 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.