Triple

T6580764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Epistle to John Rankine E157288 entity
Predicate addressee P265 FINISHED
Object John Rankine
John Rankine was a correspondent and associate of Robert Burns, known primarily as the addressee of Burns’s satirical “Epistle to John Rankine.”
E672153 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 Rankine | Statement: [The Epistle to John Rankine, addressee, John Rankine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Rankine
Context triple: [The Epistle to John Rankine, addressee, John Rankine]
  • A. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • B. George C. Rankin
    George C. Rankin was a member of the Hunter Commission, a British-era committee in India focused on educational reforms.
  • C. William Lanier
    William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • E. Smith Seckman Reid
    Smith Seckman Reid is an engineering design and consulting firm known for providing building systems and infrastructure services on major projects, including large sports and entertainment venues.
  • 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 Rankine
Triple: [The Epistle to John Rankine, addressee, John Rankine]
Generated description
John Rankine was a correspondent and associate of Robert Burns, known primarily as the addressee of Burns’s satirical “Epistle to John Rankine.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Rankine
Target entity description: John Rankine was a correspondent and associate of Robert Burns, known primarily as the addressee of Burns’s satirical “Epistle to John Rankine.”
  • A. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • B. George C. Rankin
    George C. Rankin was a member of the Hunter Commission, a British-era committee in India focused on educational reforms.
  • C. William Lanier
    William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • E. Smith Seckman Reid
    Smith Seckman Reid is an engineering design and consulting firm known for providing building systems and infrastructure services on major projects, including large sports and entertainment venues.
  • 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_69c6882b3a108190b3a9eb343ae4162c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae90c1b081908f851bff1dd19855 completed March 27, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84ed5afb081909838f01bde45268d completed March 28, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c852da8c048190b2a0696f2e7b65c1 completed March 28, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c853958b748190b4ecc9797389cc85 completed March 28, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:54 p.m.