Triple

T14348796
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Discovery of Witches E355796 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Hamish Osborne
Hamish Osborne is a character in Deborah Harkness’s All Souls trilogy, notably appearing in "A Discovery of Witches" as a close friend and advisor to the vampire Matthew Clairmont.
E1092798 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: Hamish Osborne | Statement: [A Discovery of Witches, hasCharacter, Hamish Osborne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hamish Osborne
Context triple: [A Discovery of Witches, hasCharacter, Hamish Osborne]
  • A. Hamish Stuart
    Hamish Stuart is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the Average White Band and for his extensive session and touring work with major artists.
  • B. Hamish Carter
    Hamish Carter is a New Zealand triathlete best known for winning the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
  • C. Hamish McColl
    Hamish McColl is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work in film and television comedy, including collaborations with Rowan Atkinson.
  • D. Hamish
    Hamish is a Scottish given name, traditionally used as the Anglicised form of the Gaelic Seumas, equivalent to James.
  • E. Hamish
    Hamish is one of the mischievous young princes from Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave," known as one of Queen Elinor and King Fergus's red-haired triplet sons.
  • 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: Hamish Osborne
Triple: [A Discovery of Witches, hasCharacter, Hamish Osborne]
Generated description
Hamish Osborne is a character in Deborah Harkness’s All Souls trilogy, notably appearing in "A Discovery of Witches" as a close friend and advisor to the vampire Matthew Clairmont.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hamish Osborne
Target entity description: Hamish Osborne is a character in Deborah Harkness’s All Souls trilogy, notably appearing in "A Discovery of Witches" as a close friend and advisor to the vampire Matthew Clairmont.
  • A. Hamish Stuart
    Hamish Stuart is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the Average White Band and for his extensive session and touring work with major artists.
  • B. Hamish Carter
    Hamish Carter is a New Zealand triathlete best known for winning the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
  • C. Hamish McColl
    Hamish McColl is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work in film and television comedy, including collaborations with Rowan Atkinson.
  • D. Hamish
    Hamish is a Scottish given name, traditionally used as the Anglicised form of the Gaelic Seumas, equivalent to James.
  • E. Hamish
    Hamish is one of the mischievous young princes from Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave," known as one of Queen Elinor and King Fergus's red-haired triplet sons.
  • 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_69d82790a7e08190877e2d349b2e8d8e completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de8e8d081c8190ac805726a3e98f4c completed April 14, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd46a12ad08190a2f0dc5890ed5ce9 completed May 8, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd4768edc881909a0c586b6d9568a3 completed May 8, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd47eb7db08190a68f60b255073d8d completed May 8, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:14 a.m.