Triple

T5475119
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robertson E122932 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)
Alexander Robertson was a Scottish shipbuilder known for founding and running the Robertson yard at Sandbank on the River Clyde, which produced notable wooden yachts and small craft in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E523508 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: Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder) | Statement: [Robertson, notableBearer, Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)
Context triple: [Robertson, notableBearer, Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)]
  • A. John Roebuck
    John Roebuck was an 18th-century English physician, chemist, and industrialist known for pioneering improvements in the lead-chamber process for producing sulfuric acid and for his early partnership with James Watt.
  • B. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • 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. Alexander Thomson (architect)
    Alexander Thomson (architect) was a 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for his distinctive Glasgow buildings that fused classical forms with innovative structural design, earning him the nickname "Greek Thomson."
  • 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: Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)
Triple: [Robertson, notableBearer, Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)]
Generated description
Alexander Robertson was a Scottish shipbuilder known for founding and running the Robertson yard at Sandbank on the River Clyde, which produced notable wooden yachts and small craft in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Robertson (shipbuilder)
Target entity description: Alexander Robertson was a Scottish shipbuilder known for founding and running the Robertson yard at Sandbank on the River Clyde, which produced notable wooden yachts and small craft in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. John Roebuck
    John Roebuck was an 18th-century English physician, chemist, and industrialist known for pioneering improvements in the lead-chamber process for producing sulfuric acid and for his early partnership with James Watt.
  • B. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • 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. Alexander Thomson (architect)
    Alexander Thomson (architect) was a 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for his distinctive Glasgow buildings that fused classical forms with innovative structural design, earning him the nickname "Greek Thomson."
  • 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_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.