Triple
T4545024
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Buchanan Medal |
E110024
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
George Buchanan
George Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer known for his influential work in public health and sanitation.
|
E451982
|
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: George Buchanan | Statement: [Buchanan Medal, namedAfter, George Buchanan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Buchanan Context triple: [Buchanan Medal, namedAfter, George Buchanan]
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A.
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.
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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.
Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and political thinker best known for his influential work on church-state relations and his role in the Covenanter movement.
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D.
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
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E.
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith was an English civil servant and administrator known for his role in managing naval and governmental affairs in the early modern period.
- 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: George Buchanan Triple: [Buchanan Medal, namedAfter, George Buchanan]
Generated description
George Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer known for his influential work in public health and sanitation.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Buchanan Target entity description: George Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer known for his influential work in public health and sanitation.
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A.
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.
-
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.
-
C.
Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and political thinker best known for his influential work on church-state relations and his role in the Covenanter movement.
-
D.
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith was a member of the British-appointed Hunter Commission, which investigated the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in colonial India.
-
E.
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith was an English civil servant and administrator known for his role in managing naval and governmental affairs in the early modern period.
- 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_69bd4412524c8190be5bcc9ddee91848 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd57d62a8481909d5d803a582c76a1 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdb936f3348190af0784d472bff312 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 9:16 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bdbeb14e6881908c2a95dbe6b200e6 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bdbf09a5f8819093f5f4ab483332b9 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.