Triple

T9271071
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Killearn E222828 entity
Predicate hasNotablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object George Buchanan
George Buchanan was a 16th-century Scottish humanist scholar, historian, and poet renowned for his Latin writings and influence on political thought during the Renaissance.
E789081 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: George Buchanan | Statement: [Killearn, hasNotablePerson, George Buchanan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Buchanan
Context triple: [Killearn, hasNotablePerson, George Buchanan]
  • A. George Buchanan
    George Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer known for his influential work in public health and sanitation.
  • B. Thomas Scot
    Thomas Scot was a prominent English politician and regicide who played a leading role in the execution of King Charles I and in the republican government during the Interregnum.
  • C. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
    Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun was a Scottish writer, politician, and patriot of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his influential republican ideas and opposition to the 1707 Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
  • D. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • E. Samuel Rutherford
    Samuel Rutherford was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and political thinker best known for his influential work on church-state relations and his role in the Covenanter movement.
  • 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: George Buchanan
Triple: [Killearn, hasNotablePerson, George Buchanan]
Generated description
George Buchanan was a 16th-century Scottish humanist scholar, historian, and poet renowned for his Latin writings and influence on political thought during the Renaissance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Buchanan
Target entity description: George Buchanan was a 16th-century Scottish humanist scholar, historian, and poet renowned for his Latin writings and influence on political thought during the Renaissance.
  • A. George Buchanan
    George Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer known for his influential work in public health and sanitation.
  • B. Thomas Scot
    Thomas Scot was a prominent English politician and regicide who played a leading role in the execution of King Charles I and in the republican government during the Interregnum.
  • C. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
    Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun was a Scottish writer, politician, and patriot of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his influential republican ideas and opposition to the 1707 Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
  • D. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • E. Samuel Rutherford
    Samuel Rutherford was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and political thinker best known for his influential work on church-state relations and his role in the Covenanter movement.
  • 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_69ca841ffe208190aa7bcffbef2f8379 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd07865790819099b3865a25dae58a completed April 1, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d09c2ca500819083ef4aa37f3e3a7f completed April 4, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d09d5047e8819082dbb2e44547b41c completed April 4, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d09dec544c819095e2109d5e1671d3 completed April 4, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:33 p.m.