Triple

T5438539
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Greyfriars Kirkyard E122071 entity
Predicate containsGraveOf P3802 FINISHED
Object Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray
Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray was a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman best known as the master of the loyal Skye terrier who famously guarded his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
E519279 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: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray | Statement: [Greyfriars Kirkyard, containsGraveOf, Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray
Context triple: [Greyfriars Kirkyard, containsGraveOf, Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray]
  • A. George Heriot
    George Heriot was a wealthy 16th–17th century Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist whose endowments notably supported education in Edinburgh.
  • B. Sir John Brown of Fordell
    Sir John Brown of Fordell was a 17th-century Scottish military leader and nobleman best known for commanding forces at the Battle of Inverkeithing during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • C. St Boswells
    St Boswells is a village in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, known for its picturesque rural setting and historic market-town character.
  • D. Bartholomew Green
    Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
  • E. High Kirk of Glasgow
    The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
  • 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: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray
Triple: [Greyfriars Kirkyard, containsGraveOf, Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray]
Generated description
Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray was a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman best known as the master of the loyal Skye terrier who famously guarded his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray
Target entity description: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray was a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman best known as the master of the loyal Skye terrier who famously guarded his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
  • A. George Heriot
    George Heriot was a wealthy 16th–17th century Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist whose endowments notably supported education in Edinburgh.
  • B. Sir John Brown of Fordell
    Sir John Brown of Fordell was a 17th-century Scottish military leader and nobleman best known for commanding forces at the Battle of Inverkeithing during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • C. St Boswells
    St Boswells is a village in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, known for its picturesque rural setting and historic market-town character.
  • D. Bartholomew Green
    Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
  • E. High Kirk of Glasgow
    The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
  • 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_69bd46400768819092925d461c0b8432 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91bce47c8190b9fd23444e636cdd completed March 20, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3ad3a3d88190bacde12f515d9971 completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3ba6784081908b19717290b7ba3d completed March 22, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3c1ad4d8819093aeb94f62eb1086 completed March 22, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:07 p.m.