Triple
T5475120
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robertson |
E122932
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableBearer |
P458
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Robertson (historian) |
E98830
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Robertson (historian) | Statement: [Robertson, notableBearer, William Robertson (historian)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Robertson (historian) Context triple: [Robertson, notableBearer, William Robertson (historian)]
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A.
William Robertson
chosen
William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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B.
Thomas Hume
Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
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C.
Robert Hurrell Froude
Robert Hurrell Froude was a 19th-century English Anglican priest and theologian associated with the Oxford Movement.
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D.
Richard Macaulay
Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
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E.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan was a prominent British historian known for his influential narrative histories of England and Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd46459ff48190823377457bcf7128 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd923465c88190ad9c1b75b268f7ca |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf489a8f9881908aec81e59ed1e3e4 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.