Triple

T1139366
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cockburn E23413 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object 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.
E158238 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 Pattison Cockburn | Statement: [Cockburn, hasNotableBearer, James Pattison Cockburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Pattison Cockburn
Context triple: [Cockburn, hasNotableBearer, James Pattison Cockburn]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John MacGregor
    John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. M. H. Baillie Scott
    M. H. Baillie Scott was a British architect and designer renowned for his influential domestic architecture and interiors that helped define the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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 Pattison Cockburn
Triple: [Cockburn, hasNotableBearer, James Pattison Cockburn]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Pattison Cockburn
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John MacGregor
    John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. M. H. Baillie Scott
    M. H. Baillie Scott was a British architect and designer renowned for his influential domestic architecture and interiors that helped define the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69a493ef399c8190b04b9146d2314f59 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc27c88881909c64ec30b7f66575 completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd46d2f748190997c662f7c29e990 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd6a03b70819096bdf7ec3b447756 completed March 8, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd71971448190940136b8a44040be completed March 8, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.