Triple

T925420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of St Andrews E19971 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond is a Scottish politician and former First Minister of Scotland who led the Scottish National Party (SNP) for many years and played a central role in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
E109736 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: Alex Salmond | Statement: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Alex Salmond]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alex Salmond
Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Alex Salmond]
  • A. David Steel
    David Steel is a British politician best known for leading the Liberal Party in the late 1970s and 1980s and later serving as the first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
  • B. Nicola Sturgeon
    Nicola Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party, known for her strong advocacy for Scottish independence and pro-EU stance.
  • C. Ian Donald Cameron
    Ian Donald Cameron was a British stockbroker and the father of former UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
  • D. Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and was previously a long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer.
  • E. Sir John Anderson
    Sir John Anderson was a British civil servant and politician who played a central administrative and security role in Winston Churchill’s World War II government.
  • 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: Alex Salmond
Triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Alex Salmond]
Generated description
Alex Salmond is a Scottish politician and former First Minister of Scotland who led the Scottish National Party (SNP) for many years and played a central role in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alex Salmond
Target entity description: Alex Salmond is a Scottish politician and former First Minister of Scotland who led the Scottish National Party (SNP) for many years and played a central role in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
  • A. David Steel
    David Steel is a British politician best known for leading the Liberal Party in the late 1970s and 1980s and later serving as the first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
  • B. Nicola Sturgeon
    Nicola Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party, known for her strong advocacy for Scottish independence and pro-EU stance.
  • C. Ian Donald Cameron
    Ian Donald Cameron was a British stockbroker and the father of former UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
  • D. Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and was previously a long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer.
  • E. Sir John Anderson
    Sir John Anderson was a British civil servant and politician who played a central administrative and security role in Winston Churchill’s World War II government.
  • 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_69a7ee0becc0819089b3dadc618cf83c completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f3607c70819080c5e3e49ccc6de5 completed March 4, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f3d1e97881909cbb97a8ca89c574 completed March 4, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.