Triple

T23268489
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Timaru Boys' High School E588221 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Sir Thomas Mackenzie
Sir Thomas Mackenzie was a New Zealand politician, explorer, and diplomat who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1912 before becoming High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
 E1584831 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: Sir Thomas Mackenzie | Statement: [Timaru Boys' High School, hasNotableAlumni, Sir Thomas Mackenzie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sir Thomas Mackenzie
Context triple: [Timaru Boys' High School, hasNotableAlumni, Sir Thomas Mackenzie]
  • A. Lord Mackay of Drumadoon
    Lord Mackay of Drumadoon is a Scottish judge and Conservative politician who served as Lord Advocate and later as a senior member of the Scottish judiciary.
  • B. Lord Mackay of Clashfern
    Lord Mackay of Clashfern is a Scottish lawyer and Conservative politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1997.
  • C. Mountstuart Elphinstone
    Mountstuart Elphinstone was a prominent early 19th-century British colonial administrator and historian noted for his influential role in governing and reforming British India.
  • D. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
    Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a 17th-century Scottish laird, writer, and translator best known for his eccentric prose and his celebrated translation of Rabelais into English.
  • E. Sir Jeremy Mackenzie
    Sir Jeremy Mackenzie is a retired senior British Army officer who rose to high command, including serving as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe in NATO.
  • 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: Sir Thomas Mackenzie
Triple: [Timaru Boys' High School, hasNotableAlumni, Sir Thomas Mackenzie]
Generated description
Sir Thomas Mackenzie was a New Zealand politician, explorer, and diplomat who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1912 before becoming High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sir Thomas Mackenzie
Target entity description: Sir Thomas Mackenzie was a New Zealand politician, explorer, and diplomat who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1912 before becoming High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
  • A. Lord Mackay of Drumadoon
    Lord Mackay of Drumadoon is a Scottish judge and Conservative politician who served as Lord Advocate and later as a senior member of the Scottish judiciary.
  • B. Lord Mackay of Clashfern
    Lord Mackay of Clashfern is a Scottish lawyer and Conservative politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1997.
  • C. Mountstuart Elphinstone
    Mountstuart Elphinstone was a prominent early 19th-century British colonial administrator and historian noted for his influential role in governing and reforming British India.
  • D. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
    Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a 17th-century Scottish laird, writer, and translator best known for his eccentric prose and his celebrated translation of Rabelais into English.
  • E. Sir Jeremy Mackenzie
    Sir Jeremy Mackenzie is a retired senior British Army officer who rose to high command, including serving as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe in NATO.
  • 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_69e25d148adc819088efbf42672604e9 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1957219188190b30bceffad1542da completed April 29, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c677db1408190876f90ed712d055b completed May 19, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c72132a608190b44c96de39b7187a completed May 19, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c76f0f4bc81909912d2196e969cf1 completed May 19, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:43 p.m.