Triple

T22987684
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Strang E571956 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Strang
William Strang was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for his powerful portraits and etchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E1566687 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 Strang | Statement: [Strang, hasNotableBearer, William Strang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Strang
Context triple: [Strang, hasNotableBearer, William Strang]
  • A. William Sutherland Maxwell
    William Sutherland Maxwell was a Canadian architect best known in the Bahá’í Faith for designing the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa.
  • B. William Stanger
    William Stanger was a 19th-century surveyor and colonial official in Natal, South Africa, after whom the town of Stanger (now KwaDukuza) was named.
  • C. Robert Dundas Duncan
    Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. William Weir
    William Weir is a name shared by several notable figures, including politicians, engineers, and public servants from the United Kingdom.
  • E. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • 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 Strang
Triple: [Strang, hasNotableBearer, William Strang]
Generated description
William Strang was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for his powerful portraits and etchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Strang
Target entity description: William Strang was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for his powerful portraits and etchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. William Sutherland Maxwell
    William Sutherland Maxwell was a Canadian architect best known in the Bahá’í Faith for designing the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa.
  • B. William Stanger
    William Stanger was a 19th-century surveyor and colonial official in Natal, South Africa, after whom the town of Stanger (now KwaDukuza) was named.
  • C. Robert Dundas Duncan
    Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. William Weir
    William Weir is a name shared by several notable figures, including politicians, engineers, and public servants from the United Kingdom.
  • E. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • 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_69e245b535808190adef8a9df3c584db completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1829b4ea88190bc1a01183df7a1bb completed April 29, 2026, 4:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bf29f10448190b0c9e79231334aa0 completed May 19, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bfb386e7081908082e0335630f6bc completed May 19, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bfbefc8088190be9fd36b598eba83 completed May 19, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:49 p.m.