Triple

T4967341
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aberdeen Grammar School E111558 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Smith (translator)
William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and translator, best known for his English translations of ancient Greek texts.
E482880 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 (translator) | Statement: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Smith (translator)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith (translator)
Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Smith (translator)]
  • A. Edward William Lane
    Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."
  • B. William Jones (philologist)
    William Jones (philologist) was an 18th-century British scholar and linguist best known for proposing the common origin of Indo-European languages, laying the foundation for comparative linguistics.
  • C. John Camden Hotten
    John Camden Hotten was a 19th-century English publisher, bookseller, and author known for his influential role in Victorian literary culture and for founding the firm that became Chatto & Windus.
  • D. John Gardner Wilkinson
    John Gardner Wilkinson was a pioneering 19th-century English Egyptologist whose detailed studies and publications helped lay the foundations of modern Egyptology.
  • E. Brooke Foss Westcott
    Brooke Foss Westcott was a 19th-century British bishop, biblical scholar, and textual critic best known for his influential work on the Greek New Testament and its manuscript traditions.
  • 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 (translator)
Triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, William Smith (translator)]
Generated description
William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and translator, best known for his English translations of ancient Greek texts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith (translator)
Target entity description: William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and translator, best known for his English translations of ancient Greek texts.
  • A. Edward William Lane
    Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."
  • B. William Jones (philologist)
    William Jones (philologist) was an 18th-century British scholar and linguist best known for proposing the common origin of Indo-European languages, laying the foundation for comparative linguistics.
  • C. John Camden Hotten
    John Camden Hotten was a 19th-century English publisher, bookseller, and author known for his influential role in Victorian literary culture and for founding the firm that became Chatto & Windus.
  • D. John Gardner Wilkinson
    John Gardner Wilkinson was a pioneering 19th-century English Egyptologist whose detailed studies and publications helped lay the foundations of modern Egyptology.
  • E. Brooke Foss Westcott
    Brooke Foss Westcott was a 19th-century British bishop, biblical scholar, and textual critic best known for his influential work on the Greek New Testament and its manuscript traditions.
  • 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.