Triple
T6619921
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas |
E149646
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entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.