Triple

T850408
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Aberdeen E18371 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object James Blair
James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
E110205 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: James Blair | Statement: [University of Aberdeen, hasNotableAlumni, James Blair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Blair
Context triple: [University of Aberdeen, hasNotableAlumni, James Blair]
  • A. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • B. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
  • C. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • D. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • E. Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a pioneering British-American architect often regarded as the father of American architecture, known for his influential work on the United States Capitol and other early federal buildings.
  • 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: James Blair
Triple: [University of Aberdeen, hasNotableAlumni, James Blair]
Generated description
James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Blair
Target entity description: James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
  • A. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • B. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
  • C. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • D. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • E. Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a pioneering British-American architect often regarded as the father of American architecture, known for his influential work on the United States Capitol and other early federal buildings.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac215194819099e6bc1b5df58fb3 completed March 1, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7edfe79bc8190bcfb89f4bbc1feb4 completed March 4, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a80a93f1f081909ca6a76346fd607e completed March 4, 2026, 10:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a80aecb32c81908456b38f0d4603ef completed March 4, 2026, 10:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.