Triple

T5605980
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scottish literature E147232 entity
Predicate notableAuthor P4290 FINISHED
Object Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig was a prominent 20th-century Scottish poet renowned for his clear, lyrical verse and vivid depictions of the Scottish landscape and everyday life.
E546310 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: Norman MacCaig | Statement: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Norman MacCaig]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman MacCaig
Context triple: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Norman MacCaig]
  • A. Hugh MacDiarmid
    Hugh MacDiarmid was a pioneering 20th-century Scottish poet and key figure in the Scottish literary renaissance, known for revitalizing Scots language poetry and blending modernist techniques with national themes.
  • B. Sorley MacLean
    Sorley MacLean was a 20th-century Scottish Gaelic poet whose innovative and politically charged verse helped revive and modernize Gaelic literature.
  • C. Edwin Muir
    Edwin Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist, and translator best known for his symbolic poetry and influential English translations of Franz Kafka’s works.
  • D. Edwin Morgan
    Edwin Morgan was a pioneering 20th-century Scottish poet and translator, celebrated for his experimental style, science fiction themes, and role as Scotland’s first national poet (Makar).
  • E. Ian Macpherson
    Ian Macpherson is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • 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: Norman MacCaig
Triple: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Norman MacCaig]
Generated description
Norman MacCaig was a prominent 20th-century Scottish poet renowned for his clear, lyrical verse and vivid depictions of the Scottish landscape and everyday life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman MacCaig
Target entity description: Norman MacCaig was a prominent 20th-century Scottish poet renowned for his clear, lyrical verse and vivid depictions of the Scottish landscape and everyday life.
  • A. Hugh MacDiarmid
    Hugh MacDiarmid was a pioneering 20th-century Scottish poet and key figure in the Scottish literary renaissance, known for revitalizing Scots language poetry and blending modernist techniques with national themes.
  • B. Sorley MacLean
    Sorley MacLean was a 20th-century Scottish Gaelic poet whose innovative and politically charged verse helped revive and modernize Gaelic literature.
  • C. Edwin Muir
    Edwin Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist, and translator best known for his symbolic poetry and influential English translations of Franz Kafka’s works.
  • D. Edwin Morgan
    Edwin Morgan was a pioneering 20th-century Scottish poet and translator, celebrated for his experimental style, science fiction themes, and role as Scotland’s first national poet (Makar).
  • E. Ian Macpherson
    Ian Macpherson is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • 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_69c097cc15348190b4db6db00f9b9faf completed March 23, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c09882e3188190a24199e5bcc7e76f completed March 23, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0991cdc9c81908ef92c3dbfe4276a completed March 23, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:39 p.m.