Triple
T7246369
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robert Burns Jr. |
E156479
|
entity |
| Predicate | sibling |
P363
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Nicol Burns |
E234335
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Nicol Burns | Statement: [Robert Burns Jr., sibling, William Nicol Burns]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nicol Burns Context triple: [Robert Burns Jr., sibling, William Nicol Burns]
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A.
William Nicol Burns
chosen
William Nicol Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns who became a customs officer and spent much of his life in London.
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B.
Francis Wallace Burns
Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
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C.
William Ross
William Ross is an American composer, orchestrator, and conductor known for his work on numerous film scores and collaborations with major Hollywood productions.
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D.
Reginald S. Macdonald
Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
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E.
Charles Alling Gifford
Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c68827b5e481908dc05e145b2c92d4 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6ea5a8bbc8190bf16747dbdd65ce8 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c8f2ffec108190ab60b0777d97dd89 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 9:38 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.