Triple

T3364583
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alexander McDougall E70803 entity
Predicate parentOf P120 FINISHED
Object Mary McDougall
Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
E370223 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: Mary McDougall | Statement: [Alexander McDougall, parentOf, Mary McDougall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary McDougall
Context triple: [Alexander McDougall, parentOf, Mary McDougall]
  • A. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • B. Ellin Mackay
    Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • C. Barbara McDougall
    Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
  • D. Mary Mackilwean
    Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
  • E. Margaret Durkan
    Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
  • 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: Mary McDougall
Triple: [Alexander McDougall, parentOf, Mary McDougall]
Generated description
Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary McDougall
Target entity description: Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • A. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • B. Ellin Mackay
    Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • C. Barbara McDougall
    Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
  • D. Mary Mackilwean
    Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
  • E. Margaret Durkan
    Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
  • 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_69ad85a729d48190afd789cd8417f289 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb28467b88190bdf70b851bc8efa9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bb6f45ec8190835a8a68ffa99efc completed March 13, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bc03f0f08190bf1b89d779a15746 completed March 13, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f92268c08190a17f1c90ef2277b2 completed March 13, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.