Triple

T13437558
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Master of Ballantrae E320268 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James Durie
James Durie is the proud, ruthless elder brother and Jacobite adventurer whose rivalry with his sibling drives the tragic plot of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Master of Ballantrae."
E1049669 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 Durie | Statement: [The Master of Ballantrae, mainCharacter, James Durie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Durie
Context triple: [The Master of Ballantrae, mainCharacter, James Durie]
  • A. John Mathieson
    John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
  • B. Don McKinnon
    Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • C. Ewen Macdonald
    Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • D. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • E. Gordon Drummond
    Gordon Drummond was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and played a key leadership role in the War of 1812.
  • 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 Durie
Triple: [The Master of Ballantrae, mainCharacter, James Durie]
Generated description
James Durie is the proud, ruthless elder brother and Jacobite adventurer whose rivalry with his sibling drives the tragic plot of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Master of Ballantrae."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Durie
Target entity description: James Durie is the proud, ruthless elder brother and Jacobite adventurer whose rivalry with his sibling drives the tragic plot of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Master of Ballantrae."
  • A. John Mathieson
    John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
  • B. Don McKinnon
    Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • C. Ewen Macdonald
    Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • D. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • E. Gordon Drummond
    Gordon Drummond was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and played a key leadership role in the War of 1812.
  • 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaee42a8c8190a85716b4a6db335e completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f76ba16b948190b7e753368eabf012 completed May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7763fc23c819098d46ab0906b8764 completed May 3, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f779178dc48190bb0de790de30d8b0 completed May 3, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.