Triple

T5605976
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scottish literature E147232 entity
Predicate notableAuthor P4290 FINISHED
Object Nan Shepherd
Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
 E527903 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: Nan Shepherd | Statement: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Nan Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nan Shepherd
Context triple: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Nan Shepherd]
  • A. Alfred Wainwright
    Alfred Wainwright was an English fellwalker, author, and illustrator best known for his meticulously hand-drawn guidebooks to the Lake District fells.
  • B. Jonathan Raban
    Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, and critic renowned for his reflective, genre-blending works on place, identity, and journey.
  • C. A. D. Lindsay
    A. D. Lindsay was a prominent British philosopher and academic who served as Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and was known for his work on political philosophy and Plato.
  • D. George Dawes Green
    George Dawes Green is an American novelist and storyteller best known as the founder of The Moth storytelling organization and the author of acclaimed suspense novels such as "The Juror."
  • E. J. R. Ackerley
    J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
  • 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: Nan Shepherd
Triple: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Nan Shepherd]
Generated description
Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nan Shepherd
Target entity description: Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
  • A. Alfred Wainwright
    Alfred Wainwright was an English fellwalker, author, and illustrator best known for his meticulously hand-drawn guidebooks to the Lake District fells.
  • B. Jonathan Raban
    Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, and critic renowned for his reflective, genre-blending works on place, identity, and journey.
  • C. A. D. Lindsay
    A. D. Lindsay was a prominent British philosopher and academic who served as Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and was known for his work on political philosophy and Plato.
  • D. George Dawes Green
    George Dawes Green is an American novelist and storyteller best known as the founder of The Moth storytelling organization and the author of acclaimed suspense novels such as "The Juror."
  • E. J. R. Ackerley
    J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
  • 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_69c0090500f881908374285baf0ac46f completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020fa4b0881909fdbb8ea38eeb5e3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c02878aad8819082d2c8f038b79bc7 completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c033e0043881908c9fca5138398188 completed March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c034664c808190b382f7aad0e3149a completed March 22, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:39 p.m.