Triple

T13512020
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumfries Academy E322662 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object James Harkness (chaplain-general)
James Harkness was a senior Scottish military chaplain who served as Chaplain-General to the Forces and a prominent figure in the Church of Scotland.
E1048455 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 Harkness (chaplain-general) | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (chaplain-general)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Harkness (chaplain-general)
Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (chaplain-general)]
  • A. James Harkness (army officer)
    James Harkness was a British Army officer who rose to senior rank and is recognized as a distinguished military leader from Scotland.
  • B. Colonel Israel Angell
    Colonel Israel Angell was an American Revolutionary War officer from Rhode Island who distinguished himself in several key battles, including the defense of strategic forts and positions against British forces.
  • C. Colonel Thomas Wyndham Goddard
    Colonel Thomas Wyndham Goddard was a British East India Company army officer best known for leading successful campaigns in western India during the late 18th century, particularly in the First Anglo-Maratha War.
  • D. Colonel Andrew Hynes
    Colonel Andrew Hynes was an early American pioneer and military officer best known for establishing the Kentucky settlement that became Elizabethtown.
  • E. Colonel Creighton
    Colonel Creighton is a British intelligence officer and scholar of Indian culture in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim," serving as a key figure in the Great Game espionage network.
  • 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 Harkness (chaplain-general)
Triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, James Harkness (chaplain-general)]
Generated description
James Harkness was a senior Scottish military chaplain who served as Chaplain-General to the Forces and a prominent figure in the Church of Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Harkness (chaplain-general)
Target entity description: James Harkness was a senior Scottish military chaplain who served as Chaplain-General to the Forces and a prominent figure in the Church of Scotland.
  • A. James Harkness (army officer)
    James Harkness was a British Army officer who rose to senior rank and is recognized as a distinguished military leader from Scotland.
  • B. Colonel Israel Angell
    Colonel Israel Angell was an American Revolutionary War officer from Rhode Island who distinguished himself in several key battles, including the defense of strategic forts and positions against British forces.
  • C. Colonel Thomas Wyndham Goddard
    Colonel Thomas Wyndham Goddard was a British East India Company army officer best known for leading successful campaigns in western India during the late 18th century, particularly in the First Anglo-Maratha War.
  • D. Colonel Andrew Hynes
    Colonel Andrew Hynes was an early American pioneer and military officer best known for establishing the Kentucky settlement that became Elizabethtown.
  • E. Colonel Creighton
    Colonel Creighton is a British intelligence officer and scholar of Indian culture in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim," serving as a key figure in the Great Game espionage network.
  • 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf86a6208190be8c18f7a0158f23 completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f76ba835f08190bdc21de864e0fcc8 completed May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f778e8dbb88190bbdca0261c54c554 completed May 3, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f779877d048190a11e9bdef68c1f4b completed May 3, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.