Triple

T3487990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philosophical Magazine E73655 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Tilloch
Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
E394841 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: Alexander Tilloch | Statement: [Philosophical Magazine, founder, Alexander Tilloch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Tilloch
Context triple: [Philosophical Magazine, founder, Alexander Tilloch]
  • A. Alexander Macmillan
    Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
  • B. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • C. Charles Ramsay
    Charles Ramsay is known primarily as the son of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the World War II naval commander who helped orchestrate the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings.
  • D. Gustav Hamilton
    Gustav Hamilton was a 17th-century Scottish-born Swedish military officer and nobleman known for his service in the Swedish army and governance roles in the Baltic region.
  • E. Allan Ruthven
    Allan Ruthven was a celebrated Australian rules footballer of the mid-20th century, best known as a Brownlow Medal-winning star for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
  • 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: Alexander Tilloch
Triple: [Philosophical Magazine, founder, Alexander Tilloch]
Generated description
Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Tilloch
Target entity description: Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
  • A. Alexander Macmillan
    Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
  • B. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • C. Charles Ramsay
    Charles Ramsay is known primarily as the son of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the World War II naval commander who helped orchestrate the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings.
  • D. Gustav Hamilton
    Gustav Hamilton was a 17th-century Scottish-born Swedish military officer and nobleman known for his service in the Swedish army and governance roles in the Baltic region.
  • E. Allan Ruthven
    Allan Ruthven was a celebrated Australian rules footballer of the mid-20th century, best known as a Brownlow Medal-winning star for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
  • 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_69ad85cca8d4819088494e9f3340fab5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb9193688190aa0cbf87a7b99446 completed March 8, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b511ff137c8190bf9ca22dd71bd205 completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5129946508190860e12a8f90eb5ee completed March 14, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513481c308190849e66bbd9caf57c completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.