Triple

T15847419
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Maitland Balfour E384248 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Alice Balfour
Alice Balfour was a Scottish entomologist and scientific illustrator from a prominent political family, known for her studies of insects and contributions to natural history.
 E1179216 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: Alice Balfour | Statement: [James Maitland Balfour, hasChild, Alice Balfour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alice Balfour
Context triple: [James Maitland Balfour, hasChild, Alice Balfour]
  • A. Margaret Isabella Balfour
    Margaret Isabella Balfour was the Scottish mother of author Robert Louis Stevenson, belonging to a prominent Edinburgh family.
  • B. Margaret Fraser
    Margaret Fraser was the mother of British Army officer and Special Air Service (SAS) founder David Stirling.
  • C. Elisabeth Farquharson
    Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
  • D. Margaret Robertson
    Margaret Robertson was the wife of Scottish physicist and radar pioneer Sir Robert Watson-Watt.
  • E. Margaret Lindsay
    Margaret Lindsay was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her supporting roles in numerous Hollywood dramas and crime films.
  • 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: Alice Balfour
Triple: [James Maitland Balfour, hasChild, Alice Balfour]
Generated description
Alice Balfour was a Scottish entomologist and scientific illustrator from a prominent political family, known for her studies of insects and contributions to natural history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alice Balfour
Target entity description: Alice Balfour was a Scottish entomologist and scientific illustrator from a prominent political family, known for her studies of insects and contributions to natural history.
  • A. Margaret Isabella Balfour
    Margaret Isabella Balfour was the Scottish mother of author Robert Louis Stevenson, belonging to a prominent Edinburgh family.
  • B. Margaret Fraser
    Margaret Fraser was the mother of British Army officer and Special Air Service (SAS) founder David Stirling.
  • C. Elisabeth Farquharson
    Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
  • D. Margaret Robertson
    Margaret Robertson was the wife of Scottish physicist and radar pioneer Sir Robert Watson-Watt.
  • E. Margaret Lindsay
    Margaret Lindsay was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her supporting roles in numerous Hollywood dramas and crime films.
  • 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_69d86da422088190aac39e32e6c68429 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e14ca7c8f08190abe21cbb0c390f95 completed April 16, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa143dcb48190951648edeae6542d completed May 9, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffa41a86ec8190b46d541965ecf26e completed May 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffa496f3e48190b8dc82bece548aec completed May 9, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:50 a.m.