Triple

T1465584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon Newcomb E27014 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Wallace, Nova Scotia
Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
E168365 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: Wallace, Nova Scotia | Statement: [Simon Newcomb, placeOfBirth, Wallace, Nova Scotia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace, Nova Scotia
Context triple: [Simon Newcomb, placeOfBirth, Wallace, Nova Scotia]
  • A. Bible Hill, Nova Scotia
    Bible Hill, Nova Scotia is a small village near Truro known for its agricultural education facilities and rural community setting.
  • B. Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
    Harbour Grace, Newfoundland is a historic coastal town on Conception Bay known as one of the oldest settlements in North America and an important early fishing and maritime center.
  • C. Clair, New Brunswick
    Clair, New Brunswick is a small Canadian community in Madawaska County situated on the Saint John River directly across the border from Fort Kent, Maine.
  • D. Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada is a rural estate and research site on Cape Breton Island best known as the longtime residence and experimental laboratory of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
  • E. Cape Breton Island
    Cape Breton Island is a large, culturally rich island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, known for its rugged coastline, Celtic heritage, and the scenic Cabot Trail.
  • 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: Wallace, Nova Scotia
Triple: [Simon Newcomb, placeOfBirth, Wallace, Nova Scotia]
Generated description
Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace, Nova Scotia
Target entity description: Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
  • A. Bible Hill, Nova Scotia
    Bible Hill, Nova Scotia is a small village near Truro known for its agricultural education facilities and rural community setting.
  • B. Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
    Harbour Grace, Newfoundland is a historic coastal town on Conception Bay known as one of the oldest settlements in North America and an important early fishing and maritime center.
  • C. Clair, New Brunswick
    Clair, New Brunswick is a small Canadian community in Madawaska County situated on the Saint John River directly across the border from Fort Kent, Maine.
  • D. Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada is a rural estate and research site on Cape Breton Island best known as the longtime residence and experimental laboratory of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
  • E. Cape Breton Island
    Cape Breton Island is a large, culturally rich island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, known for its rugged coastline, Celtic heritage, and the scenic Cabot Trail.
  • 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5bb4e288190997c7e8985e9a2bd completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15a4d4b48190bda15e333f7efd7f completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1667345c8190a28ad33639e1ac2f completed March 8, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad16c8df5c819089809f2eee6f27ee completed March 8, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.