Triple

T4967327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aberdeen Grammar School E111558 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object John Hill Burton
John Hill Burton was a 19th-century Scottish historian, economist, and advocate best known for his influential works on Scottish history and legal reform.
 E482871 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: John Hill Burton | Statement: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, John Hill Burton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Hill Burton
Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, John Hill Burton]
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Arthur Arling
    Arthur Arling was an American cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
  • C. Arthur Wood
    Arthur Wood was an English composer best known for his light orchestral music, including the theme used for the long-running BBC radio drama "The Archers."
  • D. John Mortimer
    John Mortimer was a British barrister, playwright, and author best known for creating the character Horace Rumpole in the "Rumpole of the Bailey" series.
  • E. Robert May
    Robert May was a prominent theoretical ecologist and mathematical biologist known for his influential work on population dynamics and the application of chaos theory to ecology.
  • 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: John Hill Burton
Triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, John Hill Burton]
Generated description
John Hill Burton was a 19th-century Scottish historian, economist, and advocate best known for his influential works on Scottish history and legal reform.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Hill Burton
Target entity description: John Hill Burton was a 19th-century Scottish historian, economist, and advocate best known for his influential works on Scottish history and legal reform.
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Arthur Arling
    Arthur Arling was an American cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
  • C. Arthur Wood
    Arthur Wood was an English composer best known for his light orchestral music, including the theme used for the long-running BBC radio drama "The Archers."
  • D. John Mortimer
    John Mortimer was a British barrister, playwright, and author best known for creating the character Horace Rumpole in the "Rumpole of the Bailey" series.
  • E. Robert May
    Robert May was a prominent theoretical ecologist and mathematical biologist known for his influential work on population dynamics and the application of chaos theory to ecology.
  • 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_69bd4419393c819086319a6fe4bf8542 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71f8f550819099235511ca271e2d completed March 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81f43b60819091134778c6379893 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be82c740988190b1fc8af6bafba375 completed March 21, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be83cb23488190af7098f9d7af167f completed March 21, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.