Triple

T21835657
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas E539112 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (as head of main Douglas line) — 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: William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (as head of main Douglas line) | Statement: [Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas, precededBy, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (as head of main Douglas line)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (as head of main Douglas line)
Context triple: [Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas, precededBy, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (as head of main Douglas line)]
  • A. William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Black Douglas family whose growing influence brought him into fatal conflict with King James II of Scotland.
  • B. William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
    William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
  • C. William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas chosen
    William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who became the progenitor of the influential Black Douglas branch of the Douglas family.
  • D. Earls of Douglas
    The Earls of Douglas were a powerful medieval Scottish noble family who dominated Lowland politics and warfare, particularly from the 14th to 15th centuries.
  • E. William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
    William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
  • 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_69e0c475cda88190987d08f23caebdc1 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0a7a7c368819094e0c4548be30798 completed April 28, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.