Triple

T16539452
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Larnach Castle E401781 entity
Predicate builtFor P1261 FINISHED
Object William Larnach
William Larnach was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician best known for commissioning and owning Dunedin’s historic Larnach Castle.
E1225761 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 Larnach | Statement: [Larnach Castle, builtFor, William Larnach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Larnach
Context triple: [Larnach Castle, builtFor, William Larnach]
  • A. George Macalister
    George Macalister was a 19th-century Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland.
  • B. James Anthony Carmichael
    James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
  • C. Erskine Hewitt
    Erskine Hewitt was an American lawyer and philanthropist known for his work in New York City and as the son of industrialist and politician Abram Stevens Hewitt.
  • D. Charles Maclaren
    Charles Maclaren was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and editor best known as a co-founder and long-time editor of the influential newspaper The Scotsman.
  • E. William Norrie
    William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • 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 Larnach
Triple: [Larnach Castle, builtFor, William Larnach]
Generated description
William Larnach was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician best known for commissioning and owning Dunedin’s historic Larnach Castle.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Larnach
Target entity description: William Larnach was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician best known for commissioning and owning Dunedin’s historic Larnach Castle.
  • A. George Macalister
    George Macalister was a 19th-century Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland.
  • B. James Anthony Carmichael
    James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
  • C. Erskine Hewitt
    Erskine Hewitt was an American lawyer and philanthropist known for his work in New York City and as the son of industrialist and politician Abram Stevens Hewitt.
  • D. Charles Maclaren
    Charles Maclaren was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and editor best known as a co-founder and long-time editor of the influential newspaper The Scotsman.
  • E. William Norrie
    William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • 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_69d88384bc30819084229e7dcdc39a41 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3455a98b481909e489ea7bd01570a completed April 18, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0084ac013c81909ce7055de4f12e58 completed May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008558218c8190b0e72356ae52afd2 completed May 10, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008624706881909e9a265a37eeb3fc completed May 10, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.