Triple

T17228882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject effective altruism E418192 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object William MacAskill
William MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher and Oxford academic best known as a co-founder and leading theorist of the effective altruism movement.
 E1265755 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 MacAskill | Statement: [effective altruism, hasKeyFigure, William MacAskill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William MacAskill
Context triple: [effective altruism, hasKeyFigure, William MacAskill]
  • A. John MacCormick
    John MacCormick was a prominent Scottish lawyer and political activist best known for his leading role in the mid-20th-century Scottish home rule and devolution movement.
  • B. Robert MacLean
    Robert MacLean is known primarily as the husband of sociologist Annie Marion MacLean, who was a prominent figure in early American sociology.
  • C. Richard Macdonald
    Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
  • D. Douglas Mackinnon
    Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish television director best known for his work on series such as Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Good Omens.
  • E. Ewen Macdonald
    Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • 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 MacAskill
Triple: [effective altruism, hasKeyFigure, William MacAskill]
Generated description
William MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher and Oxford academic best known as a co-founder and leading theorist of the effective altruism movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William MacAskill
Target entity description: William MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher and Oxford academic best known as a co-founder and leading theorist of the effective altruism movement.
  • A. John MacCormick
    John MacCormick was a prominent Scottish lawyer and political activist best known for his leading role in the mid-20th-century Scottish home rule and devolution movement.
  • B. Robert MacLean
    Robert MacLean is known primarily as the husband of sociologist Annie Marion MacLean, who was a prominent figure in early American sociology.
  • C. Richard Macdonald
    Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
  • D. Douglas Mackinnon
    Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish television director best known for his work on series such as Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Good Omens.
  • E. Ewen Macdonald
    Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • 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_69d886d8e96081909870bff6c3d0bf09 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42df55e788190b442ffd4fac768c9 completed April 19, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a019fdf81ec8190826e543be0db3628 completed May 11, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01a0faef6481909598fe8861fd9165 completed May 11, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01a18c3958819090a84a91b29f0cf8 completed May 11, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:39 a.m.