Triple

T13511997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumfries Academy E322662 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object William Jardine (surgeon and politician)
William Jardine was a Scottish surgeon and politician who combined a medical career with public service in the 19th century.
E1044938 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: William Jardine (surgeon and politician) | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine (surgeon and politician)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jardine (surgeon and politician)
Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine (surgeon and politician)]
  • A. Archibald Menzies
    Archibald Menzies was an 18th–19th century Scottish surgeon, botanist, and naturalist best known for his plant-collecting voyages with Captain George Vancouver and for introducing numerous Pacific plant species to Europe.
  • B. William Chalmers
    William Chalmers was a Swedish merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
  • C. Sir William Gordon Cumming
    Sir William Gordon Cumming was a Scottish baronet, soldier, and socialite best known for his involvement in the infamous 1890–91 royal baccarat scandal that shook Victorian high society.
  • D. Alexander Duff
    Alexander Duff was a 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian missionary and educator renowned for pioneering English-medium higher education in India and promoting modern Western learning in Bengal.
  • E. William Firth
    William Firth is an individual known primarily as the sibling of Giuseppe Firth.
  • 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: William Jardine (surgeon and politician)
Triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Jardine (surgeon and politician)]
Generated description
William Jardine was a Scottish surgeon and politician who combined a medical career with public service in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jardine (surgeon and politician)
Target entity description: William Jardine was a Scottish surgeon and politician who combined a medical career with public service in the 19th century.
  • A. Archibald Menzies
    Archibald Menzies was an 18th–19th century Scottish surgeon, botanist, and naturalist best known for his plant-collecting voyages with Captain George Vancouver and for introducing numerous Pacific plant species to Europe.
  • B. William Chalmers
    William Chalmers was a Swedish merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
  • C. Sir William Gordon Cumming
    Sir William Gordon Cumming was a Scottish baronet, soldier, and socialite best known for his involvement in the infamous 1890–91 royal baccarat scandal that shook Victorian high society.
  • D. Alexander Duff
    Alexander Duff was a 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian missionary and educator renowned for pioneering English-medium higher education in India and promoting modern Western learning in Bengal.
  • E. William Firth
    William Firth is an individual known primarily as the sibling of Giuseppe Firth.
  • 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf86a6208190be8c18f7a0158f23 completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75492676c81909602745e2b6436cb completed May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7555173d08190be887e81c148192e completed May 3, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f756773b9c81908250ae7ffc2d8d99 completed May 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.