Triple

T18180661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edinburgh Academy E435270 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object John Watson Gordon
John Watson Gordon was a prominent 19th-century Scottish portrait painter known for his depictions of notable figures of his time.
E1313126 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: John Watson Gordon | Statement: [Edinburgh Academy, hasAlumni, John Watson Gordon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Watson Gordon
Context triple: [Edinburgh Academy, hasAlumni, John Watson Gordon]
  • A. John W. Robertson
    John W. Robertson was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • B. James W. Gordon
    James W. Gordon is a fictional Gotham City police official from DC Comics, best known as Batman’s trusted ally and often depicted as the city’s police commissioner.
  • C. Huntley Gordon
    Huntley Gordon was a Canadian-born American actor known for his prolific work in silent and early sound films during the early 20th century.
  • D. John Walter Gregory
    John Walter Gregory was a British geologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering work on the geology of East Africa and the Great Rift Valley.
  • E. Gordon Fullerton
    Gordon Fullerton was an American test pilot, NASA astronaut, and Space Shuttle commander known for his contributions to both military and civilian aerospace programs.
  • 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: John Watson Gordon
Triple: [Edinburgh Academy, hasAlumni, John Watson Gordon]
Generated description
John Watson Gordon was a prominent 19th-century Scottish portrait painter known for his depictions of notable figures of his time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Watson Gordon
Target entity description: John Watson Gordon was a prominent 19th-century Scottish portrait painter known for his depictions of notable figures of his time.
  • A. John W. Robertson
    John W. Robertson was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • B. James W. Gordon
    James W. Gordon is a fictional Gotham City police official from DC Comics, best known as Batman’s trusted ally and often depicted as the city’s police commissioner.
  • C. Huntley Gordon
    Huntley Gordon was a Canadian-born American actor known for his prolific work in silent and early sound films during the early 20th century.
  • D. John Walter Gregory
    John Walter Gregory was a British geologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering work on the geology of East Africa and the Great Rift Valley.
  • E. Gordon Fullerton
    Gordon Fullerton was an American test pilot, NASA astronaut, and Space Shuttle commander known for his contributions to both military and civilian aerospace programs.
  • 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_69d8b90c7ec081909b4694ccecb449c6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dffa75a081908dad0dcbd736172d completed April 19, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039f069efc8190bb3d91448ac93d3e completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039f7998508190b8f51f5f8898850a completed May 12, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a0953fac8190b2672f2f4670f13b completed May 12, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:31 a.m.