Triple

T17441988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Francis Douglas E424678 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Francis William Bouverie Douglas
Francis William Bouverie Douglas was a 19th-century British aristocrat and mountaineer best known for dying in the first ascent tragedy on the Matterhorn in 1865.
E1281471 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: Francis William Bouverie Douglas | Statement: [Lord Francis Douglas, fullName, Francis William Bouverie Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis William Bouverie Douglas
Context triple: [Lord Francis Douglas, fullName, Francis William Bouverie Douglas]
  • A. Henry Ponsonby
    Henry Ponsonby was a British courtier and private secretary to Queen Victoria, noted for his influential role in the royal household during the late 19th century.
  • B. Edmund Beckett Denison
    Edmund Beckett Denison was a 19th-century English lawyer, horologist, and clock designer best known for creating the mechanism of the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben).
  • C. Isaac Bayley Balfour
    Isaac Bayley Balfour was a prominent Scottish botanist and academic known for his contributions to plant taxonomy and his tenure as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
  • D. Benjamin Lascelles
    Benjamin Lascelles is a British aristocrat and member of the extended royal family as a son of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood, and a descendant of King George V.
  • E. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
    Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician, heir to the Duke of Bedford, whose early death in a hunting accident curtailed a prominent Whig political career.
  • 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: Francis William Bouverie Douglas
Triple: [Lord Francis Douglas, fullName, Francis William Bouverie Douglas]
Generated description
Francis William Bouverie Douglas was a 19th-century British aristocrat and mountaineer best known for dying in the first ascent tragedy on the Matterhorn in 1865.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis William Bouverie Douglas
Target entity description: Francis William Bouverie Douglas was a 19th-century British aristocrat and mountaineer best known for dying in the first ascent tragedy on the Matterhorn in 1865.
  • A. Henry Ponsonby
    Henry Ponsonby was a British courtier and private secretary to Queen Victoria, noted for his influential role in the royal household during the late 19th century.
  • B. Edmund Beckett Denison
    Edmund Beckett Denison was a 19th-century English lawyer, horologist, and clock designer best known for creating the mechanism of the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben).
  • C. Isaac Bayley Balfour
    Isaac Bayley Balfour was a prominent Scottish botanist and academic known for his contributions to plant taxonomy and his tenure as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
  • D. Benjamin Lascelles
    Benjamin Lascelles is a British aristocrat and member of the extended royal family as a son of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood, and a descendant of King George V.
  • E. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
    Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician, heir to the Duke of Bedford, whose early death in a hunting accident curtailed a prominent Whig political career.
  • 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_69d889db0ba481908402409af3b37917 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e44ff82bbc819095dd0621137da809 completed April 19, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02163f3c34819087f3a5d8c25a3c09 completed May 11, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a021db3ea748190a453eeb6c70852e5 completed May 11, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a021e1daa048190a2ccc566204b558d completed May 11, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:46 a.m.