Triple

T22168826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Neil MacGregor E547865 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Robert Neil MacGregor
Robert Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for leading the National Gallery and the British Museum and for his influential public work on the history of objects and culture.
E1535365 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: Robert Neil MacGregor | Statement: [Neil MacGregor, birthName, Robert Neil MacGregor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Neil MacGregor
Context triple: [Neil MacGregor, birthName, Robert Neil MacGregor]
  • A. Rob MacGregor
    Rob MacGregor is an American author best known for writing several Indiana Jones tie-in novels and works of adventure and speculative fiction.
  • B. Ian MacDougall
    Ian MacDougall is a guitarist best known for his work with the Texas punk rock band The Riverboat Gamblers.
  • 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. Roy MacGregor
    Roy MacGregor is a Scottish businessman best known for transforming Ross County F.C. from a small Highland club into a competitive force in Scottish professional football.
  • E. Roger MacDougall
    Roger MacDougall was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century British comedies and films.
  • 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: Robert Neil MacGregor
Triple: [Neil MacGregor, birthName, Robert Neil MacGregor]
Generated description
Robert Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for leading the National Gallery and the British Museum and for his influential public work on the history of objects and culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Neil MacGregor
Target entity description: Robert Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for leading the National Gallery and the British Museum and for his influential public work on the history of objects and culture.
  • A. Rob MacGregor
    Rob MacGregor is an American author best known for writing several Indiana Jones tie-in novels and works of adventure and speculative fiction.
  • B. Ian MacDougall
    Ian MacDougall is a guitarist best known for his work with the Texas punk rock band The Riverboat Gamblers.
  • 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. Roy MacGregor
    Roy MacGregor is a Scottish businessman best known for transforming Ross County F.C. from a small Highland club into a competitive force in Scottish professional football.
  • E. Roger MacDougall
    Roger MacDougall was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century British comedies and films.
  • 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_69e11e3c4c5c81908d336165816b12e0 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12a6721e8819081d732df2691f4a4 completed April 28, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0af0c93f608190bad457a860e122be completed May 18, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0af20dd3c88190a059ede31daa9c6d completed May 18, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0af29431648190a506d5e1a4fc9ce7 completed May 18, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:34 p.m.