Triple

T20781060
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Port Ellen Distillery E511480 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Kerr Mackay
Alexander Kerr Mackay was a 19th-century Scottish distiller and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Port Ellen Distillery on the Isle of Islay.
E1450155 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: Alexander Kerr Mackay | Statement: [Port Ellen Distillery, foundedBy, Alexander Kerr Mackay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Kerr Mackay
Context triple: [Port Ellen Distillery, foundedBy, Alexander Kerr Mackay]
  • A. Archibald MacKinnon
    Archibald MacKinnon was a Scottish artist known for creating the famous religious cave painting on Davaar Island off the coast of Campbeltown, Scotland.
  • B. Alexander MacKay
    Alexander MacKay was a Canadian fur trader and explorer active in the early North American fur trade, notably involved in Pacific Northwest ventures.
  • C. Arthur Macalister
    Arthur Macalister was a 19th-century Scottish-born Australian politician who served multiple terms as Premier of Queensland and played a key role in the early governance of the colony.
  • D. Dugald Mackenzie
    Dugald Mackenzie is a musician best known as a member of the Australian punk band Venom P. Stinger.
  • E. James Peter Hymers Mackay
    James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, is a Scottish advocate and former Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom known for his influential role in late 20th-century British legal and judicial reform.
  • 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: Alexander Kerr Mackay
Triple: [Port Ellen Distillery, foundedBy, Alexander Kerr Mackay]
Generated description
Alexander Kerr Mackay was a 19th-century Scottish distiller and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Port Ellen Distillery on the Isle of Islay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Kerr Mackay
Target entity description: Alexander Kerr Mackay was a 19th-century Scottish distiller and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Port Ellen Distillery on the Isle of Islay.
  • A. Archibald MacKinnon
    Archibald MacKinnon was a Scottish artist known for creating the famous religious cave painting on Davaar Island off the coast of Campbeltown, Scotland.
  • B. Alexander MacKay
    Alexander MacKay was a Canadian fur trader and explorer active in the early North American fur trade, notably involved in Pacific Northwest ventures.
  • C. Arthur Macalister
    Arthur Macalister was a 19th-century Scottish-born Australian politician who served multiple terms as Premier of Queensland and played a key role in the early governance of the colony.
  • D. Dugald Mackenzie
    Dugald Mackenzie is a musician best known as a member of the Australian punk band Venom P. Stinger.
  • E. James Peter Hymers Mackay
    James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, is a Scottish advocate and former Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom known for his influential role in late 20th-century British legal and judicial reform.
  • 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_69e0b4cac7a48190a715cb3d545df2b4 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c287b5288190823766fe59402d48 completed April 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08ef9985a08190965fb2d139b3e1f7 completed May 16, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08f36a492481908518eba744452df0 completed May 16, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08f43e36588190a556a19b9dbb738b completed May 16, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:37 p.m.