Triple
T8361325
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Matheson |
E197012
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableBearer |
P458
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sir Alexander Matheson
Sir Alexander Matheson was a 19th-century Scottish businessman, politician, and co-founder of the powerful trading conglomerate Jardine Matheson.
|
E728996
|
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: Sir Alexander Matheson | Statement: [Matheson, hasNotableBearer, Sir Alexander Matheson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Alexander Matheson Context triple: [Matheson, hasNotableBearer, Sir Alexander Matheson]
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A.
John William Mackay
John William Mackay was a 19th-century Irish-American industrialist and mining magnate who amassed a vast fortune from Nevada’s Comstock Lode and later became a major figure in transatlantic telecommunications.
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B.
Sir Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Murdoch was an influential Australian essayist, literary critic, and academic whose contributions to education and letters led to a major Western Australian university being named in his honor.
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C.
William Nairn Forbes
William Nairn Forbes was a 19th-century British engineer and architect known for his prominent work on colonial-era buildings in India, particularly in Kolkata.
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D.
Sir Alexander Gibb
Sir Alexander Gibb was a prominent Scottish civil engineer known for his major contributions to early 20th-century infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Sir Coutts Lindsay
Sir Coutts Lindsay was a 19th-century British aristocrat, painter, and art patron best known for establishing an influential alternative exhibition space to the Royal Academy in London.
- 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: Sir Alexander Matheson Triple: [Matheson, hasNotableBearer, Sir Alexander Matheson]
Generated description
Sir Alexander Matheson was a 19th-century Scottish businessman, politician, and co-founder of the powerful trading conglomerate Jardine Matheson.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Alexander Matheson Target entity description: Sir Alexander Matheson was a 19th-century Scottish businessman, politician, and co-founder of the powerful trading conglomerate Jardine Matheson.
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A.
John William Mackay
John William Mackay was a 19th-century Irish-American industrialist and mining magnate who amassed a vast fortune from Nevada’s Comstock Lode and later became a major figure in transatlantic telecommunications.
-
B.
Sir Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Murdoch was an influential Australian essayist, literary critic, and academic whose contributions to education and letters led to a major Western Australian university being named in his honor.
-
C.
William Nairn Forbes
William Nairn Forbes was a 19th-century British engineer and architect known for his prominent work on colonial-era buildings in India, particularly in Kolkata.
-
D.
Sir Alexander Gibb
Sir Alexander Gibb was a prominent Scottish civil engineer known for his major contributions to early 20th-century infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom.
-
E.
Sir Coutts Lindsay
Sir Coutts Lindsay was a 19th-century British aristocrat, painter, and art patron best known for establishing an influential alternative exhibition space to the Royal Academy in London.
- 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_69ca82f2dbe48190aba982e75a0d94de |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb8074e4588190b394d1622adca2cb |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cdc775a548819090c83d916b352f41 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cdcc872cc081909c75b3fb08b03e3f |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cdd15b53748190966a94b7e8c04880 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 2:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6 p.m.