Triple

T925424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of St Andrews E19971 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer, literary critic, and folklorist best known for his collections of fairy tales and his work in anthropology and classical scholarship.
E109739 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: Andrew Lang | Statement: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Andrew Lang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Lang
Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Andrew Lang]
  • A. Leopold Ross
    Leopold Ross is a British composer, musician, and producer known for his film and television scores and frequent collaborations with his brother Atticus Ross.
  • B. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • C. Howard Pyle
    Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, often called the "father of American illustration," known for his richly detailed adventure and historical scenes and for training a generation of influential artists.
  • D. Edward William Lane
    Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."
  • E. Henry Sharp
    Henry Sharp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous early 20th-century films, including the adventure drama "The Iron Mask."
  • 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: Andrew Lang
Triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Andrew Lang]
Generated description
Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer, literary critic, and folklorist best known for his collections of fairy tales and his work in anthropology and classical scholarship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Lang
Target entity description: Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer, literary critic, and folklorist best known for his collections of fairy tales and his work in anthropology and classical scholarship.
  • A. Leopold Ross
    Leopold Ross is a British composer, musician, and producer known for his film and television scores and frequent collaborations with his brother Atticus Ross.
  • B. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • C. Howard Pyle
    Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, often called the "father of American illustration," known for his richly detailed adventure and historical scenes and for training a generation of influential artists.
  • D. Edward William Lane
    Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."
  • E. Henry Sharp
    Henry Sharp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous early 20th-century films, including the adventure drama "The Iron Mask."
  • 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.