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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.