Triple

T22657900
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edrington Group E559277 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Robertson
William Robertson was a Scottish entrepreneur best known for establishing the drinks company that later became the Edrington Group, a major producer of Scotch whisky and other spirits.
E1548003 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 Robertson | Statement: [Edrington Group, founder, William Robertson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Robertson
Context triple: [Edrington Group, founder, William Robertson]
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. Thomas Hume
    Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • C. George Campbell
    George Campbell was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and theologian best known for his influential role in the Scottish Enlightenment and his defense of common sense in human knowledge and religious belief.
  • D. George Campbell
    George Campbell is a central fictional character in the comic novel and film "Whisky Galore!", known for his involvement in the islanders’ spirited efforts to salvage whisky from a shipwreck during wartime rationing.
  • E. A. O. Hume
    A. O. Hume was a British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist best known as one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
  • 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 Robertson
Triple: [Edrington Group, founder, William Robertson]
Generated description
William Robertson was a Scottish entrepreneur best known for establishing the drinks company that later became the Edrington Group, a major producer of Scotch whisky and other spirits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Robertson
Target entity description: William Robertson was a Scottish entrepreneur best known for establishing the drinks company that later became the Edrington Group, a major producer of Scotch whisky and other spirits.
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. Thomas Hume
    Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • C. George Campbell
    George Campbell was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and theologian best known for his influential role in the Scottish Enlightenment and his defense of common sense in human knowledge and religious belief.
  • D. George Campbell
    George Campbell is a central fictional character in the comic novel and film "Whisky Galore!", known for his involvement in the islanders’ spirited efforts to salvage whisky from a shipwreck during wartime rationing.
  • E. A. O. Hume
    A. O. Hume was a British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist best known as one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
  • 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_69e245489dd88190b1f674acf61c8769 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1765d10588190b4574f3e64617cd4 completed April 29, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b586cd2b8819095ff984b9c14c1ec completed May 18, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b6f5f8bd08190b325b9dd91e199e1 completed May 18, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b7044c94c81909a43b04f40af2a15 completed May 18, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:07 p.m.