Triple
T10694786
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ellin Mackay |
E252105
|
entity |
| Predicate | relative |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John William Mackay |
E536115
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John William Mackay | Statement: [Ellin Mackay, relative, John William Mackay]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William Mackay Context triple: [Ellin Mackay, relative, John William Mackay]
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A.
John William Mackay
chosen
John William Mackay was a 19th-century Irish-American industrialist and mining magnate who amassed a vast fortune from Nevada’s Comstock Lode and later became a major figure in transatlantic telecommunications.
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B.
John C. Munro
John C. Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, notably representing the Hamilton area.
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C.
Robert Dunsmuir
Robert Dunsmuir was a 19th-century Scottish-Canadian coal baron and politician who became one of British Columbia’s wealthiest industrialists.
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D.
Robert Samuel McLaughlin
Robert Samuel McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and automobile pioneer, best known as a founder of General Motors of Canada.
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E.
John MacLeod
John MacLeod is known as the husband of Prudence Murdoch, the eldest daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aa5bd7c08190a816e733b4045c23 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d6fd39c3788190bb7cd0acf8b6efdd |
completed | April 9, 2026, 1:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69dbb703b1ec8190b11fbb381c929a90 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 3:15 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:11 p.m.