Triple

T1683450
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Secretary of State for External Affairs E36388 entity
Predicate officeHoldersInclude P537 FINISHED
Object Flora MacDonald
Flora MacDonald was a pioneering Canadian Progressive Conservative politician and humanitarian, best known as one of the first women to hold a major federal cabinet portfolio and for her influential work in foreign affairs and international development.
E189336 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: Flora MacDonald | Statement: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Flora MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flora MacDonald
Context triple: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Flora MacDonald]
  • A. Catherine Gordon
    Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
  • B. Mary Orr
    Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
  • C. Catherine Melville
    Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
  • D. Isabella of Mar
    Isabella of Mar was a Scottish noblewoman and the first wife of Robert the Bruce, later King of Scots, and mother of his daughter Marjorie Bruce.
  • E. Mary Anne MacLeod
    Mary Anne MacLeod was a Scottish-born immigrant to the United States best known as the mother of Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
  • 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: Flora MacDonald
Triple: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Flora MacDonald]
Generated description
Flora MacDonald was a pioneering Canadian Progressive Conservative politician and humanitarian, best known as one of the first women to hold a major federal cabinet portfolio and for her influential work in foreign affairs and international development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flora MacDonald
Target entity description: Flora MacDonald was a pioneering Canadian Progressive Conservative politician and humanitarian, best known as one of the first women to hold a major federal cabinet portfolio and for her influential work in foreign affairs and international development.
  • A. Catherine Gordon
    Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
  • B. Mary Orr
    Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
  • C. Catherine Melville
    Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
  • D. Isabella of Mar
    Isabella of Mar was a Scottish noblewoman and the first wife of Robert the Bruce, later King of Scots, and mother of his daughter Marjorie Bruce.
  • E. Mary Anne MacLeod
    Mary Anne MacLeod was a Scottish-born immigrant to the United States best known as the mother of Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa627ab38081909d5f264ca49e036a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71bf1998819094d3eb67c6e6bafd completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad7298ee288190b5e2b7d2ccb17a91 completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7305c7b48190a8a443dbc20ec9b2 completed March 8, 2026, 1 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.