Triple

T4909897
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Blair E110205 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Blair
Blair is a Scottish-origin surname commonly borne by individuals and families in English-speaking countries.
E392457 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: Blair | Statement: [James Blair, familyName, Blair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blair
Context triple: [James Blair, familyName, Blair]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
  • B. John
    John is a male individual sharing the given name "John" with his younger brother, John Pitt.
  • C. John
    John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and royalist who was elevated to the peerage by King Charles II.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies, best known for his roles in the Indiana Jones and The Lord of the Rings film series.
  • E. John
    John is the husband of Martha Rainsborough.
  • 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: Blair
Triple: [James Blair, familyName, Blair]
Generated description
Blair is a Scottish-origin surname commonly borne by individuals and families in English-speaking countries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blair
Target entity description: Blair is a Scottish-origin surname commonly borne by individuals and families in English-speaking countries.
  • A. Blair
    Blair is a central character in Bret Easton Ellis's novel "Less Than Zero," known as the beautiful, emotionally detached girlfriend of the protagonist amid Los Angeles's hedonistic, disaffected youth culture.
  • B. Blair chosen
    Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
  • D. John
    John is a male individual sharing the given name "John" with his younger brother, John Pitt.
  • E. John
    John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and royalist who was elevated to the peerage by King Charles II.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd44132b94819088522d92beaadc78 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6e99414081908c3d3283f563bba4 completed March 20, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be779ed15481908366b5e22c9960e6 completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be781aa8648190a58587e6f3e04e11 completed March 21, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be78a0bdc88190bd8458658f15f879 completed March 21, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:29 p.m.