Triple

T10279209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colin Macfarquhar E241049 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Macfarquhar
Macfarquhar is a Scottish surname most notably associated with Colin Macfarquhar, a co-founder of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
 E852061 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: Macfarquhar | Statement: [Colin Macfarquhar, familyName, Macfarquhar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Macfarquhar
Context triple: [Colin Macfarquhar, familyName, Macfarquhar]
  • A. McDowall
    McDowall is a Scottish surname most famously associated with English-American actor Roddy McDowall, known for his roles in film, television, and theater.
  • B. Robert Farquharson
    Robert Farquharson is an Australian man whose trial for the deaths of his three sons in a car crash became the focus of Helen Garner’s true-crime book "This House of Grief."
  • C. MacRae
    MacRae is a Scottish surname associated with various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
  • D. MacKay
    MacKay is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Clan Mackay of the Scottish Highlands and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and sciences.
  • E. Alex Farquharson
    Alex Farquharson is a British curator and museum director best known for leading major contemporary art institutions in the UK.
  • 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: Macfarquhar
Triple: [Colin Macfarquhar, familyName, Macfarquhar]
Generated description
Macfarquhar is a Scottish surname most notably associated with Colin Macfarquhar, a co-founder of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Macfarquhar
Target entity description: Macfarquhar is a Scottish surname most notably associated with Colin Macfarquhar, a co-founder of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • A. McDowall
    McDowall is a Scottish surname most famously associated with English-American actor Roddy McDowall, known for his roles in film, television, and theater.
  • B. Robert Farquharson
    Robert Farquharson is an Australian man whose trial for the deaths of his three sons in a car crash became the focus of Helen Garner’s true-crime book "This House of Grief."
  • C. MacRae
    MacRae is a Scottish surname associated with various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
  • D. MacKay
    MacKay is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Clan Mackay of the Scottish Highlands and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and sciences.
  • E. Alex Farquharson
    Alex Farquharson is a British curator and museum director best known for leading major contemporary art institutions in the UK.
  • 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_69d381a94c1881908fc38fc263d9b9c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d29fdf2c819099dd581deac08cf2 completed April 7, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f8286b1881908b54037d1798f74a completed April 9, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fcad625881909304201c1ebb3bcb completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd84cd708190816d94417294b52a completed April 9, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:38 a.m.