Triple

T639274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Secretary of State for Education and Science E16695 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object John MacGregor
John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
E107800 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 MacGregor | Statement: [Secretary of State for Education and Science, officeHeldBy, John MacGregor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John MacGregor
Context triple: [Secretary of State for Education and Science, officeHeldBy, John MacGregor]
  • A. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • B. James McGill
    James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
  • C. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. James Keir
    James Keir was an 18th-century Scottish chemist, industrialist, and member of the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham, known for his contributions to early chemical manufacturing and scientific industry.
  • 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 MacGregor
Triple: [Secretary of State for Education and Science, officeHeldBy, John MacGregor]
Generated description
John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John MacGregor
Target entity description: John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
  • A. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • B. James McGill
    James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
  • C. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. James Keir
    James Keir was an 18th-century Scottish chemist, industrialist, and member of the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham, known for his contributions to early chemical manufacturing and scientific industry.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f00260081909d1a679182e23d10 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7cf498af4819085d494f85adf0825 completed March 4, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7cfe2e6ac8190ad26947771829f86 completed March 4, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d079234881908826bf24f3c2900a completed March 4, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.