Triple

T12308421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dugald E293412 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Dugald Semple
Dugald Semple was a Scottish writer and prominent early 20th-century advocate of simple living, vegetarianism, and nature-centered lifestyles.
E1011601 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: Dugald Semple | Statement: [Dugald, hasNotableBearer, Dugald Semple]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dugald Semple
Context triple: [Dugald, hasNotableBearer, Dugald Semple]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. James Naughtie
    James Naughtie is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist best known as a long-serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news programme, Today.
  • D. 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.
  • E. James McMillan
    James McMillan is a relatively obscure individual about whom only limited public information is available, making it difficult to identify a specific notable role or achievement.
  • 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: Dugald Semple
Triple: [Dugald, hasNotableBearer, Dugald Semple]
Generated description
Dugald Semple was a Scottish writer and prominent early 20th-century advocate of simple living, vegetarianism, and nature-centered lifestyles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dugald Semple
Target entity description: Dugald Semple was a Scottish writer and prominent early 20th-century advocate of simple living, vegetarianism, and nature-centered lifestyles.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. James Naughtie
    James Naughtie is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist best known as a long-serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news programme, Today.
  • D. 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.
  • E. James McMillan
    James McMillan is a relatively obscure individual about whom only limited public information is available, making it difficult to identify a specific notable role or achievement.
  • 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_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f01ace8819087f245b9216f4dc8 completed April 10, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af3d7778819091ab96f5d218d2c7 completed May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b0cb53848190a7aa38f38d20e44d completed May 3, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b1a539148190be7a4f16f738ca90 completed May 3, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.