Triple
T18338293
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Brown |
E439330
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entity |
| Predicate | appointedToSenateBy |
P257
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FINISHED |
| Object | John A. Macdonald |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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 A. Macdonald | Statement: [George Brown, appointedToSenateBy, John A. Macdonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Macdonald Context triple: [George Brown, appointedToSenateBy, John A. Macdonald]
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A.
John A. Macdonald
chosen
John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
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B.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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C.
Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
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D.
John A. MacDonald
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
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E.
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: appointedToSenateBy Context triple: [George Brown, appointedToSenateBy, John A. Macdonald]
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A.
numberAppointedBySenate
Indicates the number of individuals who were appointed to a position or role through the formal approval or decision of a senate.
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B.
swornInAsSenatorBy
Indicates that one person formally administers the oath of office to another person, thereby officially installing them as a senator.
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C.
appointedBy
chosen
Indicates that one entity has been formally selected or assigned to a position, role, or office by another entity.
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D.
appointedByOffice
Indicates that an entity attains its position or role through a formal appointment made by a specific office or official authority.
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E.
precededInSenateBy
Indicates that one officeholder directly held a given Senate seat before another officeholder, in terms of succession to that seat.
- F. None of above.
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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e50ecf3b4c81909372630ab634dd43 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69e44fe91bc08190906518e1b120fcf0 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 3:45 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.