Triple

T466219
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scottish Enlightenment E8452 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian, often regarded as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and an early theorist of civil society.
E57891 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: Adam Ferguson | Statement: [Scottish Enlightenment, hasKeyFigure, Adam Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adam Ferguson
Context triple: [Scottish Enlightenment, hasKeyFigure, Adam Ferguson]
  • A. Henry Dundas
    Henry Dundas was an influential 18th-century Scottish lawyer and politician, a key ally of William Pitt the Younger who dominated Scottish politics and British imperial administration, particularly in India.
  • B. John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
    John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and British Army officer who served as commander-in-chief in North America during the early years of the French and Indian War.
  • C. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Nassau William Senior
    Nassau William Senior was a 19th-century English economist and legal scholar known for his contributions to classical political economy and his role in early labor and poverty reform debates.
  • E. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • 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: Adam Ferguson
Triple: [Scottish Enlightenment, hasKeyFigure, Adam Ferguson]
Generated description
Adam Ferguson was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian, often regarded as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and an early theorist of civil society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adam Ferguson
Target entity description: Adam Ferguson was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian, often regarded as a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and an early theorist of civil society.
  • A. Henry Dundas
    Henry Dundas was an influential 18th-century Scottish lawyer and politician, a key ally of William Pitt the Younger who dominated Scottish politics and British imperial administration, particularly in India.
  • B. John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
    John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and British Army officer who served as commander-in-chief in North America during the early years of the French and Indian War.
  • C. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Nassau William Senior
    Nassau William Senior was a 19th-century English economist and legal scholar known for his contributions to classical political economy and his role in early labor and poverty reform debates.
  • E. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • 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_69a2e7f3aeb48190a19453e3a043f486 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2efd6ec708190b78c7f22deb3ca64 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a452985bb48190890711440edcf598 completed March 1, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a45314732c8190badc93d1664aabb8 completed March 1, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4536262ec8190aa08f6127ff67d53 completed March 1, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.