Triple

T9546067
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Francis Wallace Burns E230288 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object James Glencairn Burns
James Glencairn Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily as a member of the poet’s immediate family.
E808455 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: James Glencairn Burns | Statement: [Francis Wallace Burns, sibling, James Glencairn Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Glencairn Burns
Context triple: [Francis Wallace Burns, sibling, James Glencairn Burns]
  • A. George Fergusson
    George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • B. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. James Pattison Cockburn
    James Pattison Cockburn was a 19th-century British army officer and topographical artist known for his detailed landscape drawings and watercolors, particularly of Canada and Europe.
  • 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: James Glencairn Burns
Triple: [Francis Wallace Burns, sibling, James Glencairn Burns]
Generated description
James Glencairn Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily as a member of the poet’s immediate family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Glencairn Burns
Target entity description: James Glencairn Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily as a member of the poet’s immediate family.
  • A. George Fergusson
    George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • B. William Millar
    William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. James Pattison Cockburn
    James Pattison Cockburn was a 19th-century British army officer and topographical artist known for his detailed landscape drawings and watercolors, particularly of Canada and Europe.
  • 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_69ca847c70b8819088a0a0bad64a50d6 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9902fca081909125660ae6336d3f completed April 1, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d161355e2c819099c8e6b974f97608 completed April 4, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d16230a99481909d82d03babe6729a completed April 4, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d16321aba88190a7e8359dbaa5362b completed April 4, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:02 p.m.