Triple

T5062799
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brasenose College, Oxford E114063 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object John Buchan
John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and for serving as Governor General of Canada.
E490322 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: John Buchan | Statement: [Brasenose College, Oxford, hasNotableAlumni, John Buchan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buchan
Context triple: [Brasenose College, Oxford, hasNotableAlumni, John Buchan]
  • A. Peter Fleming
    Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
  • B. William Fleming
    William Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, education, and sports.
  • C. Sir William Fleming
    Sir William Fleming was a notable British figure historically associated with the village of Nettlebed in Oxfordshire, England.
  • D. Max Aitken
    Max Aitken, later known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-born British newspaper magnate, politician, and influential figure in early 20th-century media and wartime propaganda.
  • E. Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • 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: John Buchan
Triple: [Brasenose College, Oxford, hasNotableAlumni, John Buchan]
Generated description
John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and for serving as Governor General of Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buchan
Target entity description: John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and for serving as Governor General of Canada.
  • A. Peter Fleming
    Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
  • B. William Fleming
    William Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, education, and sports.
  • C. Sir William Fleming
    Sir William Fleming was a notable British figure historically associated with the village of Nettlebed in Oxfordshire, England.
  • D. Max Aitken
    Max Aitken, later known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-born British newspaper magnate, politician, and influential figure in early 20th-century media and wartime propaganda.
  • E. Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • 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_69bd443c0c8c81908663b77afb28e165 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7475be3c819085cde8ec544c407e completed March 20, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bea497fed0819098746fd8917f041c completed March 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bea5163c78819086d2424ee7b57890 completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea577f4b0819084d579e4d4804947 completed March 21, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:38 p.m.