Triple

T12616345
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Secretary of State of Scotland E301263 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object James Johnston
James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
E1033699 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 Johnston | Statement: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, James Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Johnston
Context triple: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, James Johnston]
  • A. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • B. James Johnstone
    James Johnstone was a British newspaper proprietor best known for establishing the London daily newspaper that became the Evening Standard.
  • C. Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on early Hollywood film scores and popular songs in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • E. James Gillespie
    James Gillespie was a 19th-century Texas figure, likely a politician or military leader, honored as the namesake of Gillespie County.
  • 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 Johnston
Triple: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, James Johnston]
Generated description
James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Johnston
Target entity description: James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • A. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • B. James Johnstone
    James Johnstone was a British newspaper proprietor best known for establishing the London daily newspaper that became the Evening Standard.
  • C. Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on early Hollywood film scores and popular songs in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • E. James Gillespie
    James Gillespie was a 19th-century Texas figure, likely a politician or military leader, honored as the namesake of Gillespie County.
  • 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_69d7bdeaf49c8190b13800111fa77ea3 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d960c63ea48190ae1aae9280a023a6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f716b1c7c081909154a59516b59d63 completed May 3, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f71842a8808190ae4ef8b22bdbd0c6 completed May 3, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f71908236481909140a5953ec44498 completed May 3, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:12 p.m.