Triple

T4967267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aberdeen Grammar School E111558 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie
John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie was a Scottish lawyer and laird best known as the father of physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
E482845 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: James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie | Statement: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie
Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie]
  • A. James Maxwell
    James Maxwell was a British architect known for designing prominent late 19th-century structures, including the iconic Blackpool Tower.
  • B. James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
  • C. James Watt Jr.
    James Watt Jr. was a British businessman and intellectual, known for managing his father James Watt’s steam engine business and participating in the scientific and industrial circles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Dugald Stewart
    Dugald Stewart was a prominent Scottish philosopher and mathematician known for advancing the Scottish Enlightenment through his influential work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
  • E. Lord Kelvin
    Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
  • 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: James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie
Triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie]
Generated description
John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie was a Scottish lawyer and laird best known as the father of physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clerk Maxwell’s father John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie
Target entity description: John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie was a Scottish lawyer and laird best known as the father of physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
  • A. James Maxwell
    James Maxwell was a British architect known for designing prominent late 19th-century structures, including the iconic Blackpool Tower.
  • B. James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
  • C. James Watt Jr.
    James Watt Jr. was a British businessman and intellectual, known for managing his father James Watt’s steam engine business and participating in the scientific and industrial circles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Dugald Stewart
    Dugald Stewart was a prominent Scottish philosopher and mathematician known for advancing the Scottish Enlightenment through his influential work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
  • E. Lord Kelvin
    Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
  • 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_69bd4419393c819086319a6fe4bf8542 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71f8f550819099235511ca271e2d completed March 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81f43b60819091134778c6379893 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be82c740988190b1fc8af6bafba375 completed March 21, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be83cb23488190af7098f9d7af167f completed March 21, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.