Triple
T9683135
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Nicol Burns |
E234335
|
entity |
| Predicate | relative |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Glencairn Burns |
E808455
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Glencairn Burns | Statement: [William Nicol Burns, relative, James Glencairn Burns]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Glencairn Burns Context triple: [William Nicol Burns, relative, James Glencairn Burns]
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A.
James Glencairn Burns
chosen
James Glencairn Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily as a member of the poet’s immediate family.
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B.
George Fergusson
George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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C.
William Millar
William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
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D.
David Dickson
David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
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E.
William Johnstone
William Johnstone was a Scottish painter and influential modernist associated with the Scottish Renaissance, known for his abstract landscapes and role in art education.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca84c99e34819092e5563a7106cfca |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9ccdbcc48190a4a9a70b3f419ac2 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1910192e88190b10409ae62c1c948 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 10:30 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:16 p.m.