Triple

T4974550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject KPMG E111733 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Barclay Peat
William Barclay Peat was a prominent Scottish accountant and business leader who built one of the major predecessor firms that eventually became the global professional services network KPMG.
E484627 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 Barclay Peat | Statement: [KPMG, foundedBy, William Barclay Peat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Barclay Peat
Context triple: [KPMG, foundedBy, William Barclay Peat]
  • A. William Lamberton
    William Lamberton was a prominent early 14th-century Scottish bishop and staunch supporter of Scottish independence, closely associated with figures like Robert the Bruce.
  • B. Ninian Edwards
    Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.
  • C. Geoffrey Burgon
    Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
  • D. George Steer
    George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
  • E. Francis Cockburn
    Francis Cockburn was a British colonial official after whom Cockburn Town in the Turks and Caicos Islands was named.
  • 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 Barclay Peat
Triple: [KPMG, foundedBy, William Barclay Peat]
Generated description
William Barclay Peat was a prominent Scottish accountant and business leader who built one of the major predecessor firms that eventually became the global professional services network KPMG.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Barclay Peat
Target entity description: William Barclay Peat was a prominent Scottish accountant and business leader who built one of the major predecessor firms that eventually became the global professional services network KPMG.
  • A. William Lamberton
    William Lamberton was a prominent early 14th-century Scottish bishop and staunch supporter of Scottish independence, closely associated with figures like Robert the Bruce.
  • B. Ninian Edwards
    Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.
  • C. Geoffrey Burgon
    Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
  • D. George Steer
    George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
  • E. Francis Cockburn
    Francis Cockburn was a British colonial official after whom Cockburn Town in the Turks and Caicos Islands was named.
  • 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_69bd441a0eb481908050fa4273b19eae completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd722e77208190833dc760a57428d5 completed March 20, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be8a01e548819087e3a6ae2cd581b9 completed March 21, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8c193f2c8190a220ffc2571bcb64 completed March 21, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8c6723f08190b0e722dbb1171173 completed March 21, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:33 p.m.