Triple

T449943
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clan Douglas E7104 entity
Predicate notableBranch P10432 FINISHED
Object Black Douglases
The Black Douglases were a powerful and often rebellious late medieval branch of the Scottish Douglas family, prominent in politics, warfare, and conflicts with the Crown.
 E56591 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: Black Douglases | Statement: [Clan Douglas, notableBranch, Black Douglases]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Black Douglases
Context triple: [Clan Douglas, notableBranch, Black Douglases]
  • A. Dougie
    Dougie is a familiar diminutive form of the given name Doug, often used as an affectionate nickname.
  • B. Dons
    Dons is the nickname for the University of San Francisco's men's basketball team, a program known for its historic success including multiple national championships in the 1950s.
  • C. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • D. Bronk
    Bronk is a surname most notably associated with Detlev W. Bronk, an influential American scientist and educator who helped shape modern biophysics and higher education policy.
  • E. Aldridge
    Aldridge is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, entertainment, and the arts.
  • 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: Black Douglases
Triple: [Clan Douglas, notableBranch, Black Douglases]
Generated description
The Black Douglases were a powerful and often rebellious late medieval branch of the Scottish Douglas family, prominent in politics, warfare, and conflicts with the Crown.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Black Douglases
Target entity description: The Black Douglases were a powerful and often rebellious late medieval branch of the Scottish Douglas family, prominent in politics, warfare, and conflicts with the Crown.
  • A. Dougie
    Dougie is a familiar diminutive form of the given name Doug, often used as an affectionate nickname.
  • B. Dons
    Dons is the nickname for the University of San Francisco's men's basketball team, a program known for its historic success including multiple national championships in the 1950s.
  • C. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • D. Bronk
    Bronk is a surname most notably associated with Detlev W. Bronk, an influential American scientist and educator who helped shape modern biophysics and higher education policy.
  • E. Aldridge
    Aldridge is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, entertainment, and the arts.
  • 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_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef691cc8819091729eaac52c9457 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a447ff88c0819091062bfcdc09f7c1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a448814bb48190821c12fad63cc904 completed March 1, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a448e45d248190a50fee4e2aefcaf5 completed March 1, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.