Triple

T23095176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Hume of Godscroft E575865 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Hume
Hume is a Scottish surname historically associated with the noble House of Home/Hume and several notable figures in Scottish political and intellectual life.
E1582441 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: Hume | Statement: [David Hume of Godscroft, familyName, Hume]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hume
Context triple: [David Hume of Godscroft, familyName, Hume]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given first name of Tommy Flowers, the British engineer who designed the Colossus codebreaking computer during World War II.
  • B. John
    John "Home Run" Baker was a prominent early 20th-century American Major League Baseball third baseman known for his powerful hitting and clutch home runs.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Marshall Harlan, a prominent U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential dissents in civil rights cases.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of Colonel John Barnwell, an early 18th-century colonial military leader from South Carolina known for his role in conflicts with Native American tribes.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of the American Impressionist painter John Henry Twachtman, known for his atmospheric landscapes and innovative use of color and brushwork.
  • 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: Hume
Triple: [David Hume of Godscroft, familyName, Hume]
Generated description
Hume is a Scottish surname historically associated with the noble House of Home/Hume and several notable figures in Scottish political and intellectual life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hume
Target entity description: Hume is a Scottish surname historically associated with the noble House of Home/Hume and several notable figures in Scottish political and intellectual life.
  • A. Hume
    Hume is an Australian federal electoral division in New South Wales, represented in the Parliament of Australia.
  • B. David Hume
    David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential empiricism, skepticism, and naturalistic approach to human understanding.
  • C. Thomas Reid
    Thomas Reid was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher best known as the founder of the Scottish common sense school of philosophy, which opposed the skepticism of thinkers like David Hume.
  • D. Francis Hutcheson
    Francis Hutcheson was an 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and moral theorist whose ideas on moral sense and benevolence significantly shaped later thinkers, including Adam Smith.
  • E. Bentham
    Bentham is a village in North Yorkshire, England, known for its rural setting near the Yorkshire Dales.
  • 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_69e245c060b48190a9bd61a47a16db17 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18de3b2b481909ef598b447ed4dd2 completed April 29, 2026, 4:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c5dac48dc8190b985ce6b1730fe63 completed May 19, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c5edefb448190b2ee53becb7bcb8d completed May 19, 2026, 1 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c5f58dd448190bdf6674d65098c3f completed May 19, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:57 p.m.