Triple

T6910308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lois McMaster Bujold E159912 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object her father Robert Charles McMaster
Robert Charles McMaster was the father of science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold and a significant formative influence on her writing and imagination.
E628054 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: her father Robert Charles McMaster | Statement: [Lois McMaster Bujold, influencedBy, her father Robert Charles McMaster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: her father Robert Charles McMaster
Context triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, influencedBy, her father Robert Charles McMaster]
  • A. Fergus McMaster
    Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
  • B. Miles Macdonell
    Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
  • C. John McLaren
    John McLaren was a prominent Scottish-American landscape architect best known for shaping and supervising the development of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
  • D. John Valentine Carruthers
    John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • E. John McKenzie
    John McKenzie was a prominent professional ice hockey right winger best known for his successful career in the NHL and WHA during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • 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: her father Robert Charles McMaster
Triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, influencedBy, her father Robert Charles McMaster]
Generated description
Robert Charles McMaster was the father of science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold and a significant formative influence on her writing and imagination.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: her father Robert Charles McMaster
Target entity description: Robert Charles McMaster was the father of science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold and a significant formative influence on her writing and imagination.
  • A. Fergus McMaster
    Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
  • B. Miles Macdonell
    Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
  • C. John McLaren
    John McLaren was a prominent Scottish-American landscape architect best known for shaping and supervising the development of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
  • D. John Valentine Carruthers
    John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • E. John McKenzie
    John McKenzie was a prominent professional ice hockey right winger best known for his successful career in the NHL and WHA during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • 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_69c68839ccb88190b4aa5cc1aca3448f completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9c00e948190b103a2b2a2738bb1 completed March 27, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c749076f6c819088b0b40dd3e208b0 completed March 28, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c74c274258819099913ac5610730ac completed March 28, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c74cca47b88190867550802db43ef0 completed March 28, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:25 p.m.