Triple

T5475118
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robertson E122932 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Thomas William Robertson
Thomas William Robertson was a 19th-century English dramatist and stage director known for pioneering realistic “cup and saucer” domestic drama in Victorian theatre.
E523507 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: Thomas William Robertson | Statement: [Robertson, notableBearer, Thomas William Robertson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas William Robertson
Context triple: [Robertson, notableBearer, Thomas William Robertson]
  • A. George Croom Robertson
    George Croom Robertson was a 19th-century Scottish philosopher and academic known for his work in psychology and philosophy and for promoting empirical and scientific approaches to the study of mind.
  • B. Richard Haldane
    Richard Haldane was a British Liberal statesman and lawyer best known for his major reforms of the British Army in the early 20th century.
  • C. John Frederick Adolphus McNair
    John Frederick Adolphus McNair was a 19th-century British colonial engineer and architect who played a key role in designing prominent public buildings in Singapore.
  • D. Herbert MacNair
    Herbert MacNair was a Scottish artist and designer closely linked to the Glasgow Style movement and the broader development of Art Nouveau in Britain.
  • E. Colin Campbell
    Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for leading the relief of Lucknow and playing a key role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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: Thomas William Robertson
Triple: [Robertson, notableBearer, Thomas William Robertson]
Generated description
Thomas William Robertson was a 19th-century English dramatist and stage director known for pioneering realistic “cup and saucer” domestic drama in Victorian theatre.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas William Robertson
Target entity description: Thomas William Robertson was a 19th-century English dramatist and stage director known for pioneering realistic “cup and saucer” domestic drama in Victorian theatre.
  • A. George Croom Robertson
    George Croom Robertson was a 19th-century Scottish philosopher and academic known for his work in psychology and philosophy and for promoting empirical and scientific approaches to the study of mind.
  • B. Richard Haldane
    Richard Haldane was a British Liberal statesman and lawyer best known for his major reforms of the British Army in the early 20th century.
  • C. John Frederick Adolphus McNair
    John Frederick Adolphus McNair was a 19th-century British colonial engineer and architect who played a key role in designing prominent public buildings in Singapore.
  • D. Herbert MacNair
    Herbert MacNair was a Scottish artist and designer closely linked to the Glasgow Style movement and the broader development of Art Nouveau in Britain.
  • E. Colin Campbell
    Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for leading the relief of Lucknow and playing a key role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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_69bd46459ff48190823377457bcf7128 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd923465c88190ad9c1b75b268f7ca completed March 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf489a8f9881908aec81e59ed1e3e4 completed March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf49a2071c8190bc1abc380db9383a completed March 22, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4a1033f88190a609613635de9d6c completed March 22, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.