Triple

T7765771
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn E176140 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Henry Cockburn
Henry Cockburn was a 19th-century Scottish judge, legal reformer, and essayist known for his influential role in Edinburgh’s intellectual and political life.
 E687161 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: Henry Cockburn | Statement: [Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, fullName, Henry Cockburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Cockburn
Context triple: [Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, fullName, Henry Cockburn]
  • A. Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
  • B. James Fergusson
    James Fergusson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and politician who served in several high-ranking imperial posts, including as a governor in British India.
  • C. Ian Macpherson
    Ian Macpherson is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • D. Arthur Adamson
    Arthur Adamson is a central criminal mastermind character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 thriller film "Family Plot."
  • E. A. W. McConnachie
    A. W. McConnachie is an astronomer known for research on nearby galaxies and the structure of the Local 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: Henry Cockburn
Triple: [Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, fullName, Henry Cockburn]
Generated description
Henry Cockburn was a 19th-century Scottish judge, legal reformer, and essayist known for his influential role in Edinburgh’s intellectual and political life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Cockburn
Target entity description: Henry Cockburn was a 19th-century Scottish judge, legal reformer, and essayist known for his influential role in Edinburgh’s intellectual and political life.
  • A. Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
  • B. James Fergusson
    James Fergusson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and politician who served in several high-ranking imperial posts, including as a governor in British India.
  • C. Ian Macpherson
    Ian Macpherson is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • D. Arthur Adamson
    Arthur Adamson is a central criminal mastermind character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 thriller film "Family Plot."
  • E. A. W. McConnachie
    A. W. McConnachie is an astronomer known for research on nearby galaxies and the structure of the Local 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_69c69962923c8190ac74d28b4f9fe0a0 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7043279748190b30882e9cc6cca54 completed March 27, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8c7e1a1408190a802d4f4afb8dd05 completed March 29, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8c8b75b848190a67de2040d563f86 completed March 29, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8c941814081909d299df5cd714c71 completed March 29, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:09 p.m.