Triple

T4066277
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomson E86329 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object David Couper Thomson
David Couper Thomson was a Scottish publisher who founded the D.C. Thomson & Co. media company, known for its newspapers, magazines, and comics.
E412133 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: David Couper Thomson | Statement: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, David Couper Thomson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Couper Thomson
Context triple: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, David Couper Thomson]
  • A. Sinclair Thomson
    Sinclair Thomson is a historian known for his scholarship on Latin American history, particularly indigenous politics and social movements in Bolivia.
  • B. Frank Tourle Thomson
    Frank Tourle Thomson was a British naval officer best known for captaining the pioneering 19th-century scientific expedition ship HMS Challenger.
  • C. Norman MacLeod
    Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
  • D. Mark Aitchison Young
    Mark Aitchison Young was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong, notably during the period surrounding the Japanese invasion and occupation in World War II.
  • E. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • 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: David Couper Thomson
Triple: [Thomson, hasNotableBearer, David Couper Thomson]
Generated description
David Couper Thomson was a Scottish publisher who founded the D.C. Thomson & Co. media company, known for its newspapers, magazines, and comics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Couper Thomson
Target entity description: David Couper Thomson was a Scottish publisher who founded the D.C. Thomson & Co. media company, known for its newspapers, magazines, and comics.
  • A. Sinclair Thomson
    Sinclair Thomson is a historian known for his scholarship on Latin American history, particularly indigenous politics and social movements in Bolivia.
  • B. Frank Tourle Thomson
    Frank Tourle Thomson was a British naval officer best known for captaining the pioneering 19th-century scientific expedition ship HMS Challenger.
  • C. Norman MacLeod
    Norman MacLeod is a Scottish name borne by several notable figures, including clergymen, writers, and clan leaders prominent in 19th-century Scotland.
  • D. Mark Aitchison Young
    Mark Aitchison Young was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong, notably during the period surrounding the Japanese invasion and occupation in World War II.
  • E. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefbf58d9c8190936e453b0d397cb0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b55b5388190a90551c43388f3fc completed March 14, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56bdcfa94819096df212e6e99937e completed March 14, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56c5e73e88190896176180a9e58cd completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.