Triple

T4391989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Duncan Rice Library E99384 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Duncan Rice
Duncan Rice is a Scottish academic and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, honored by having the university’s main library named after him.
E435277 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: Duncan Rice | Statement: [Sir Duncan Rice Library, namedAfter, Duncan Rice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duncan Rice
Context triple: [Sir Duncan Rice Library, namedAfter, Duncan Rice]
  • A. Oliver Dowden
    Oliver Dowden is a British Conservative Party politician who has held several senior UK government roles, including serving in the Cabinet.
  • B. Liam Fox
    Liam Fox is a British Conservative politician and former Defence Secretary who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1992.
  • C. Francis Maude
    Francis Maude is a British Conservative politician known for serving in several senior government roles, including as a Cabinet Office minister responsible for civil service and public sector reforms.
  • D. Chris Grayling
    Chris Grayling is a British Conservative politician and former cabinet minister who served in roles including Justice Secretary and Transport Secretary.
  • E. Simon Cameron
    Simon Cameron was a 19th-century American politician and influential Republican power broker who served as Abraham Lincoln’s first Secretary of War and later as a long-time U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
  • 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: Duncan Rice
Triple: [Sir Duncan Rice Library, namedAfter, Duncan Rice]
Generated description
Duncan Rice is a Scottish academic and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, honored by having the university’s main library named after him.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duncan Rice
Target entity description: Duncan Rice is a Scottish academic and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, honored by having the university’s main library named after him.
  • A. Oliver Dowden
    Oliver Dowden is a British Conservative Party politician who has held several senior UK government roles, including serving in the Cabinet.
  • B. Liam Fox
    Liam Fox is a British Conservative politician and former Defence Secretary who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1992.
  • C. Francis Maude
    Francis Maude is a British Conservative politician known for serving in several senior government roles, including as a Cabinet Office minister responsible for civil service and public sector reforms.
  • D. Chris Grayling
    Chris Grayling is a British Conservative politician and former cabinet minister who served in roles including Justice Secretary and Transport Secretary.
  • E. Simon Cameron
    Simon Cameron was a 19th-century American politician and influential Republican power broker who served as Abraham Lincoln’s first Secretary of War and later as a long-time U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69b345506b408190b0e3dee616738a7d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35285592881909fcdea225a655950 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e530428881908d125971263bd747 completed March 14, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e629115881908436a81b5774ac24 completed March 14, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e68c960c8190a946574120a50047 completed March 14, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.