Triple

T4967323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aberdeen Grammar School E111558 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Alexander (journalist)
William Alexander was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and author, best known for his work with the Aberdeen Free Press and his writings in the Doric dialect.
E482867 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: William Alexander (journalist) | Statement: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Alexander (journalist)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Alexander (journalist)
Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Alexander (journalist)]
  • A. Charles Pilger
    Charles Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
  • B. James Guillaume
    James Guillaume was a prominent Swiss anarchist, educator, and close associate of Mikhail Bakunin who played a leading role in the anti-authoritarian wing of the First International.
  • C. William Fox
    William Fox was a pioneering American film producer and studio executive who founded the movie company that later became 20th Century Fox.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • 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: William Alexander (journalist)
Triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Alexander (journalist)]
Generated description
William Alexander was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and author, best known for his work with the Aberdeen Free Press and his writings in the Doric dialect.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Alexander (journalist)
Target entity description: William Alexander was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and author, best known for his work with the Aberdeen Free Press and his writings in the Doric dialect.
  • A. Charles Pilger
    Charles Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
  • B. James Guillaume
    James Guillaume was a prominent Swiss anarchist, educator, and close associate of Mikhail Bakunin who played a leading role in the anti-authoritarian wing of the First International.
  • C. William Fox
    William Fox was a pioneering American film producer and studio executive who founded the movie company that later became 20th Century Fox.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • 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.