Triple
T4368244
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Robertson |
E98830
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Robertson |
E98830
|
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: William Robertson | Statement: [William Robertson, name, William Robertson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Robertson Context triple: [William Robertson, name, 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.
John Carlyle
John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
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D.
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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E.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
- 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b352034d3881909ed4b2f9eef5e823 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5e50838188190b5b698d4bd2b5784 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.