Triple
T20620296
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | David John McDonald |
E506681
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David John McDonald |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: David John McDonald | Statement: [David John McDonald, name, David John McDonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David John McDonald Context triple: [David John McDonald, name, David John McDonald]
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A.
David John McDonald
chosen
David John McDonald, better known by his stage name David Tennant, is a Scottish actor renowned for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running British television series Doctor Who.
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B.
David MacDonald
David MacDonald is a cinematographer known for his work on the Indian biographical drama film "Gandhi, My Father."
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C.
Robert McDonald
Robert McDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
Paul McDonald
Paul McDonald is an American singer-songwriter and former "American Idol" contestant known for his folk-rock style and distinctive raspy voice.
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E.
Ben McDonald
Ben McDonald is a former American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for being the first overall pick in the 1989 MLB Draft and for his standout collegiate career before playing primarily with the Baltimore Orioles.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4bc90988190ac360aaf645efc1d |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6abe0e22c81909f6efe21518e33f0 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:42 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:42 a.m.