Triple

T931759
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Thomas Fairfax E20107 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.
E153765 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: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Statement: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, father, Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Context triple: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, father, Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron]
  • A. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
    Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who controlled vast estates in colonial Virginia and played a significant role in the region’s early development.
  • B. William Seton
    William Seton was an early American financier and broker known for being among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • D. Thomas Ludwell Lee
    Thomas Ludwell Lee was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician who played a role in the early governance of colonial and revolutionary Virginia.
  • E. Sir James Douglas
    Sir James Douglas was a renowned Scottish knight and military leader of the Wars of Scottish Independence, famed as one of Robert the Bruce’s most trusted commanders.
  • 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: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Triple: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, father, Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron]
Generated description
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Target entity description: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.
  • A. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
    Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who controlled vast estates in colonial Virginia and played a significant role in the region’s early development.
  • B. William Seton
    William Seton was an early American financier and broker known for being among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • D. Thomas Ludwell Lee
    Thomas Ludwell Lee was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician who played a role in the early governance of colonial and revolutionary Virginia.
  • E. Sir James Douglas
    Sir James Douglas was a renowned Scottish knight and military leader of the Wars of Scottish Independence, famed as one of Robert the Bruce’s most trusted commanders.
  • 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_69a493af3dc48190adb7263e6e445ea1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b34b302c81908fa32cb18f551493 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc5ff51c48190ab9b096d9d885d8f completed March 8, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6ae66408190bf48fe3150a08116 completed March 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc73b92248190b723cb64046799e3 completed March 8, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.