Triple

T4967339
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aberdeen Grammar School E111558 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Smith (historian)
William Smith was a Scottish historian known for his scholarly contributions to the study of Scottish history and education.
E482879 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 Smith (historian) | Statement: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Smith (historian)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith (historian)
Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Smith (historian)]
  • A. William Smith (scholar)
    William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and academic known for his contributions to the study and teaching of ancient languages and literature.
  • B. William Smith (biographer)
    William Smith was a Scottish biographer and man of letters of the 19th century, known for his literary and historical writings.
  • C. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • D. William Smith
    William Smith was a British sealer and explorer credited with the early 19th-century discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.
  • E. William Smith
    William Smith was a 19th-century American religious leader best known as a younger brother of Joseph Smith and an early apostle in the Latter Day Saint movement.
  • 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 Smith (historian)
Triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Smith (historian)]
Generated description
William Smith was a Scottish historian known for his scholarly contributions to the study of Scottish history and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith (historian)
Target entity description: William Smith was a Scottish historian known for his scholarly contributions to the study of Scottish history and education.
  • A. William Smith (scholar)
    William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and academic known for his contributions to the study and teaching of ancient languages and literature.
  • B. William Smith (biographer) chosen
    William Smith was a Scottish biographer and man of letters of the 19th century, known for his literary and historical writings.
  • C. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • D. William Smith
    William Smith was a British sealer and explorer credited with the early 19th-century discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.
  • E. William Smith
    William Smith was a 19th-century American religious leader best known as a younger brother of Joseph Smith and an early apostle in the Latter Day Saint movement.
  • 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_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_69be92489ae481909240f2ad20637649 completed March 21, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9466f7908190996e30c7c1e34595 completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be94c06bfc81908921472983592d8d completed March 21, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.