Triple

T6678770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas E151924 entity
Predicate nobleFamily P914 FINISHED
Object Black Douglas
The Black Douglas was a powerful and influential Scottish noble family that played a central role in medieval Scotland’s politics, warfare, and struggles for independence.
E611615 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: Black Douglas | Statement: [James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, nobleFamily, Black Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Douglas
Context triple: [James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, nobleFamily, Black Douglas]
  • A. Dugald
    Dugald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
  • B. Kyle of Sutherland
    Kyle of Sutherland is a tidal estuary in the Scottish Highlands formed by the confluence of several rivers before they flow into the Dornoch Firth.
  • C. Morris of Rutherglen
    Morris of Rutherglen is a historic Australian winery renowned for its fortified wines and rich winemaking heritage in the Rutherglen region of Victoria.
  • D. Fergus
    Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
  • E. Fergus
    Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
  • 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: Black Douglas
Triple: [James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, nobleFamily, Black Douglas]
Generated description
The Black Douglas was a powerful and influential Scottish noble family that played a central role in medieval Scotland’s politics, warfare, and struggles for independence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Douglas
Target entity description: The Black Douglas was a powerful and influential Scottish noble family that played a central role in medieval Scotland’s politics, warfare, and struggles for independence.
  • A. Dugald
    Dugald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
  • B. Kyle of Sutherland
    Kyle of Sutherland is a tidal estuary in the Scottish Highlands formed by the confluence of several rivers before they flow into the Dornoch Firth.
  • C. Morris of Rutherglen
    Morris of Rutherglen is a historic Australian winery renowned for its fortified wines and rich winemaking heritage in the Rutherglen region of Victoria.
  • D. Fergus
    Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
  • E. Fergus
    Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
  • 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_69c687f830bc81909eb8b04dbb8450b1 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b0f6813c8190906f619b4276a232 completed March 27, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6f7a9fda4819096d4bd3e8133cecb completed March 27, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f8b1e1f48190bc9058a8a21a4a62 completed March 27, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f9441d74819098f0639a29fdeb5e completed March 27, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:03 p.m.