Triple

T11758936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hudson family murders E279602 entity
Predicate hasConvictedPerson P50904 FINISHED
Object William Balfour E280765 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: William Balfour | Statement: [Hudson family murders, hasConvictedPerson, William Balfour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Balfour
Context triple: [Hudson family murders, hasConvictedPerson, William Balfour]
  • A. William Balfour chosen
    William Balfour is an American man best known for being convicted of the 2008 murders of three relatives of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.
  • B. James Maitland Balfour
    James Maitland Balfour was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and Conservative politician, best known as the father of future British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.
  • C. Isaac Bayley Balfour
    Isaac Bayley Balfour was a prominent Scottish botanist and academic known for his contributions to plant taxonomy and his tenure as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
  • D. Gerald Balfour
    Gerald Balfour was a British Conservative politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for holding several high-ranking government posts and for being the younger brother of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.
  • E. Sir Henry Balfour
    Sir Henry Balfour was a 17th-century military officer known for his role as a commander during the English Civil War.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasConvictedPerson
Context triple: [Hudson family murders, hasConvictedPerson, William Balfour]
  • A. convictedIndividual chosen
    Indicates that an individual has been found guilty of a crime or offense through a formal legal process and has received a conviction.
  • B. convictedOf
    Indicates that a person or entity has been found guilty of committing a specified offense or crime through a formal legal process.
  • C. hasFirstConviction
    Indicates that an entity has received its first legal conviction for an offense.
  • D. hasHadCriminalConviction
    Indicates that an entity has previously been found guilty of a criminal offense through a legal process.
  • E. numberOfConvictions
    Indicates the count of times an entity has been formally found guilty of an offense.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5220f148190ae60d1941a579ab6 completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f090416334819084dc63d896c0c04a completed April 28, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d88a829fe481909cc5431de7d6058e completed April 10, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.