Triple

T4532912
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Somerville E106338 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Samuel Greig
Samuel Greig was a Scottish naval officer in the Russian service who became the first husband of the renowned science writer and mathematician Mary Somerville.
E450827 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: Samuel Greig | Statement: [Mary Somerville, spouse, Samuel Greig]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Greig
Context triple: [Mary Somerville, spouse, Samuel Greig]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Edward Bransfield
    Edward Bransfield was a 19th-century Irish-born British naval officer and explorer noted for his early charting and exploration of the Antarctic region.
  • C. Samuel Andrews
    Samuel Andrews was a 19th-century American oil refiner and businessman best known as a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company alongside John D. Rockefeller and others.
  • 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. John MacGregor
    John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
  • 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: Samuel Greig
Triple: [Mary Somerville, spouse, Samuel Greig]
Generated description
Samuel Greig was a Scottish naval officer in the Russian service who became the first husband of the renowned science writer and mathematician Mary Somerville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Greig
Target entity description: Samuel Greig was a Scottish naval officer in the Russian service who became the first husband of the renowned science writer and mathematician Mary Somerville.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Edward Bransfield
    Edward Bransfield was a 19th-century Irish-born British naval officer and explorer noted for his early charting and exploration of the Antarctic region.
  • C. Samuel Andrews
    Samuel Andrews was a 19th-century American oil refiner and businessman best known as a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company alongside John D. Rockefeller and others.
  • 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. John MacGregor
    John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
  • 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_69bd43f3d6e08190a91824f833d51bbe completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd579f27ac8190ae9a4252109e56e1 completed March 20, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdacea41bc8190b49c9d1a31d7930f completed March 20, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdb220bc6481908955c5c953bbfb97 completed March 20, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdb2871e3481908d143c52d9e7141f completed March 20, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:03 p.m.