Triple

T925372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of St Andrews E19971 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Henry Wardlaw
Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
E111293 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: Henry Wardlaw | Statement: [University of St Andrews, founder, Henry Wardlaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Wardlaw
Context triple: [University of St Andrews, founder, Henry Wardlaw]
  • A. Ninian Edwards
    Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.
  • B. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • E. George Wishart
    George Wishart was a 16th-century Scottish Protestant reformer and martyr whose preaching and ideas significantly shaped the early Scottish Reformation.
  • 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: Henry Wardlaw
Triple: [University of St Andrews, founder, Henry Wardlaw]
Generated description
Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Wardlaw
Target entity description: Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
  • A. Ninian Edwards
    Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.
  • B. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • E. George Wishart
    George Wishart was a 16th-century Scottish Protestant reformer and martyr whose preaching and ideas significantly shaped the early Scottish Reformation.
  • 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32ad9f88190b7d477d0a9a9dbc8 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a826d8f9408190aa286bb809507797 completed March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a84d53e46c8190b19b56ecc928c9a0 completed March 4, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a84db197448190897d0def5f01a2c2 completed March 4, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.