Triple
T18624314
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Airds Moss |
E455238
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
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FINISHED |
| Object | John Balfour of Kinloch |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Balfour of Kinloch | Statement: [Battle of Airds Moss, commander, John Balfour of Kinloch]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Balfour of Kinloch Context triple: [Battle of Airds Moss, commander, John Balfour of Kinloch]
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A.
John Balfour of Burley
chosen
John Balfour of Burley is a fictionalized version of the historical Covenanter and militant Presbyterian leader John Balfour of Kinloch, depicted as a zealous and fanatical figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Old Mortality."
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B.
George Douglas of Pittendreich
George Douglas of Pittendreich was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Douglas family and the father of James Douglas, who became the 4th Earl of Morton and Regent of Scotland.
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C.
James Balfour of Whittingehame
James Balfour of Whittingehame was a Scottish landowner and politician from an influential East Lothian family in the 18th–19th century.
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D.
John Cockburn of Ormiston
John Cockburn of Ormiston was a Scottish landowner and agricultural improver of the early 18th century, noted for pioneering modern farming practices on his Ormiston estate in East Lothian.
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E.
Archibald Stirling of Keir
Archibald Stirling of Keir was a Scottish laird and landowner from the prominent Stirling family, known as the father of SAS founder David Stirling.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38cc7948190a55ea64e5638994e |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e54f039b408190b51fe770a4c530ec |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:54 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.