Triple

T13192928
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March E314037 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Douglas, 1st Earl of March
William Douglas, 1st Earl of March, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the powerful Douglas family who played a significant role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
E1037934 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: William Douglas, 1st Earl of March | Statement: [William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, father, William Douglas, 1st Earl of March]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas, 1st Earl of March
Context triple: [William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, father, William Douglas, 1st Earl of March]
  • A. William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March
    William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician from the influential Douglas family, whose titles and estates later passed to his son, the 4th Duke of Queensberry.
  • B. 1st Earl of March
    The 1st Earl of March was an English noble title held by Roger Mortimer, a powerful medieval magnate central to the deposition of King Edward II.
  • C. 3rd Earl of March
    The 3rd Earl of March was a Scottish noble title in the Douglas family, later associated with William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, during the 18th century.
  • D. Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
    Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
  • E. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
    John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, was a prominent English military commander of the Hundred Years' War, renowned for his aggressive tactics and campaigns in France.
  • 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: William Douglas, 1st Earl of March
Triple: [William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, father, William Douglas, 1st Earl of March]
Generated description
William Douglas, 1st Earl of March, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the powerful Douglas family who played a significant role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas, 1st Earl of March
Target entity description: William Douglas, 1st Earl of March, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the powerful Douglas family who played a significant role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
  • A. William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March
    William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician from the influential Douglas family, whose titles and estates later passed to his son, the 4th Duke of Queensberry.
  • B. 1st Earl of March
    The 1st Earl of March was an English noble title held by Roger Mortimer, a powerful medieval magnate central to the deposition of King Edward II.
  • C. 3rd Earl of March
    The 3rd Earl of March was a Scottish noble title in the Douglas family, later associated with William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, during the 18th century.
  • D. Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
    Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
  • E. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
    John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, was a prominent English military commander of the Hundred Years' War, renowned for his aggressive tactics and campaigns in France.
  • 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_69d806ae1e08819090d95bfe1538cc17 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c6158e4819082c8ad75b4dfdd90 completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7305a8c108190aff4e4797370f3d3 completed May 3, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f731093b0481908fb1a7b3fa14c73e completed May 3, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f73186da9081908cec946610d745df completed May 3, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.