Triple

T7247361
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scottish Renaissance E156507 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object William Johnstone
William Johnstone was a Scottish painter and influential modernist associated with the Scottish Renaissance, known for his abstract landscapes and role in art education.
E659266 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 Johnstone | Statement: [Scottish Renaissance, notableFigure, William Johnstone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Johnstone
Context triple: [Scottish Renaissance, notableFigure, William Johnstone]
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. John Erskine
    John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
  • C. Ian Dalrymple
    Ian Dalrymple was a British screenwriter and film producer noted for his acclaimed work in early 20th-century cinema, including an Academy Award-winning screenplay.
  • D. David Dickson
    David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
  • E. Matthew Stirling
    Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
  • 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 Johnstone
Triple: [Scottish Renaissance, notableFigure, William Johnstone]
Generated description
William Johnstone was a Scottish painter and influential modernist associated with the Scottish Renaissance, known for his abstract landscapes and role in art education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Johnstone
Target entity description: William Johnstone was a Scottish painter and influential modernist associated with the Scottish Renaissance, known for his abstract landscapes and role in art education.
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. John Erskine
    John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
  • C. Ian Dalrymple
    Ian Dalrymple was a British screenwriter and film producer noted for his acclaimed work in early 20th-century cinema, including an Academy Award-winning screenplay.
  • D. David Dickson
    David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
  • E. Matthew Stirling
    Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
  • 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_69c68827b5e481908dc05e145b2c92d4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ea749fb08190841c0aa8c5bd0727 completed March 27, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7fa6ad54081908a0be2d1f7d6505e completed March 28, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fcc2cc4c8190871287fdf4338ebd completed March 28, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fd12d1f08190b0ae80fdc7e17cc5 completed March 28, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.