Triple

T11989867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Julian Alden Weir E285376 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object John Ferguson Weir
John Ferguson Weir was a 19th-century American painter and influential art educator who served as the first director of the Yale School of Fine Arts.
 E957329 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: John Ferguson Weir | Statement: [Julian Alden Weir, sibling, John Ferguson Weir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Ferguson Weir
Context triple: [Julian Alden Weir, sibling, John Ferguson Weir]
  • A. Robert Scott
    Robert Scott was a local figure of historical significance after whom the Alabama town of Scottsboro was named.
  • B. Douglas Gerrard
    Douglas Gerrard was an early 20th-century film actor and director who appeared in numerous silent-era productions.
  • C. Ronald Kinnoch
    Ronald Kinnoch was a British film producer best known for his work on mid-20th-century genre films, including influential science fiction and horror titles.
  • D. Donald Stewart
    Donald Stewart is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in politics, law, and the arts.
  • E. Donald Stewart
    Donald Stewart was a British Indian Army general who played a prominent leadership role in the late 19th-century campaigns on the Northwest Frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • 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: John Ferguson Weir
Triple: [Julian Alden Weir, sibling, John Ferguson Weir]
Generated description
John Ferguson Weir was a 19th-century American painter and influential art educator who served as the first director of the Yale School of Fine Arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Ferguson Weir
Target entity description: John Ferguson Weir was a 19th-century American painter and influential art educator who served as the first director of the Yale School of Fine Arts.
  • A. Robert Scott
    Robert Scott was a local figure of historical significance after whom the Alabama town of Scottsboro was named.
  • B. Douglas Gerrard
    Douglas Gerrard was an early 20th-century film actor and director who appeared in numerous silent-era productions.
  • C. Ronald Kinnoch
    Ronald Kinnoch was a British film producer best known for his work on mid-20th-century genre films, including influential science fiction and horror titles.
  • D. Donald Stewart
    Donald Stewart is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in politics, law, and the arts.
  • E. Donald Stewart
    Donald Stewart was a British Indian Army general who played a prominent leadership role in the late 19th-century campaigns on the Northwest Frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903afe4388190a2cf2328e85adf9b completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f47257911481909d6bd72535eefdbd completed May 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47cb7f9b4819091e6df4b894359bb completed May 1, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47e6b8234819087fa1c53406b5f62 completed May 1, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.