Triple

T6619921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas E149646 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Black Douglas family whose growing influence brought him into fatal conflict with King James II of Scotland.
E623948 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: William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas | Statement: [William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, successor, William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
Context triple: [William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, successor, William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]
  • A. William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
  • B. James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
  • C. James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate whose conflict with King James II led to his murder and the downfall of the Black Douglas family.
  • D. James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader, prominent in the Wars of Scottish Independence and a key figure of the influential Black Douglas family.
  • E. William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who became the progenitor of the influential Black Douglas branch of the Douglas family.
  • 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: William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
Triple: [William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, successor, William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]
Generated description
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Black Douglas family whose growing influence brought him into fatal conflict with King James II of Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
Target entity description: William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Black Douglas family whose growing influence brought him into fatal conflict with King James II of Scotland.
  • A. William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
  • B. James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
  • C. James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate whose conflict with King James II led to his murder and the downfall of the Black Douglas family.
  • D. James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
    James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader, prominent in the Wars of Scottish Independence and a key figure of the influential Black Douglas family.
  • E. William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who became the progenitor of the influential Black Douglas branch of the Douglas family.
  • 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_69c687ed8a9c81908bb671717cb192ef completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6af5ca97481909f8a7dc47249b4d3 completed March 27, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c72f7450dc8190881a9347b8b9475f completed March 28, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c735fb16488190a1b94e016ed0f41a completed March 28, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7365071d881909ef0de08299d7dc8 completed March 28, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:58 p.m.