Triple

T7411621
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Douglas E171016 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William le Hardi Douglas
William le Hardi Douglas was a 13th-century Scottish noble and warrior known for his staunch resistance to English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
E664018 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: William le Hardi Douglas | Statement: [James Douglas, father, William le Hardi Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William le Hardi Douglas
Context triple: [James Douglas, father, William le Hardi Douglas]
  • A. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a Scottish nobleman best known for his central role in the protracted Douglas inheritance dispute, which became one of 18th-century Scotland’s most famous legal cases.
  • B. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader who served as Guardian of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • C. William Elphinstone
    William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
  • D. William Elphinstone
    William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
  • E. William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
    William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
  • 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: William le Hardi Douglas
Triple: [James Douglas, father, William le Hardi Douglas]
Generated description
William le Hardi Douglas was a 13th-century Scottish noble and warrior known for his staunch resistance to English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William le Hardi Douglas
Target entity description: William le Hardi Douglas was a 13th-century Scottish noble and warrior known for his staunch resistance to English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • A. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a Scottish nobleman best known for his central role in the protracted Douglas inheritance dispute, which became one of 18th-century Scotland’s most famous legal cases.
  • B. Archibald Douglas
    Archibald Douglas was a 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader who served as Guardian of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • C. William Elphinstone
    William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
  • D. William Elphinstone
    William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
  • E. William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
    William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
  • 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_69c68a618bdc81908d8018edadecd1a4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2a027148190bdb6a7940389e377 completed March 27, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81edbbe6481908904d1a1f7cfb20a completed March 28, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8218838b48190a71dfa44a52ba30c completed March 28, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8230e2b3481909a6460a38be2a478 completed March 28, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:11 p.m.