Triple

T4420274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James M. Buchanan E95079 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Geoffrey Brennan
Geoffrey Brennan was an Australian philosopher and economist known for his influential work in public choice theory and his long-term collaboration with Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan.
 E438125 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: Geoffrey Brennan | Statement: [James M. Buchanan, coAuthor, Geoffrey Brennan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Geoffrey Brennan
Context triple: [James M. Buchanan, coAuthor, Geoffrey Brennan]
  • A. John Leeson
    John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
  • B. Neil Buchanan
    Neil Buchanan is a British television presenter, artist, and musician best known for hosting the children's art show "Art Attack."
  • C. Gerald Aungier
    Gerald Aungier was a 17th-century English colonial administrator of the East India Company who significantly developed Bombay into a major commercial and administrative center.
  • D. Michael O'Herlihy
    Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. David Giles
    David Giles was a British television director best known for his work on classic literary adaptations and period dramas for the BBC.
  • 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: Geoffrey Brennan
Triple: [James M. Buchanan, coAuthor, Geoffrey Brennan]
Generated description
Geoffrey Brennan was an Australian philosopher and economist known for his influential work in public choice theory and his long-term collaboration with Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Geoffrey Brennan
Target entity description: Geoffrey Brennan was an Australian philosopher and economist known for his influential work in public choice theory and his long-term collaboration with Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan.
  • A. John Leeson
    John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
  • B. Neil Buchanan
    Neil Buchanan is a British television presenter, artist, and musician best known for hosting the children's art show "Art Attack."
  • C. Gerald Aungier
    Gerald Aungier was a 17th-century English colonial administrator of the East India Company who significantly developed Bombay into a major commercial and administrative center.
  • D. Michael O'Herlihy
    Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. David Giles
    David Giles was a British television director best known for his work on classic literary adaptations and period dramas for the BBC.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3551fae7c8190abafda0d78f02d89 completed March 13, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f623c958819087630c16b6ac8cb8 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f9f26ef88190842e01d952e52125 completed March 15, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5faa6bfe881908a76c6c54f89feda completed March 15, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.