Triple
T20799501
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Premier of Canada West |
E512001
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entity |
| Predicate | officeHeldBy |
P537
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FINISHED |
| Object | John Sandfield Macdonald (last Premier of Canada West) |
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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: John Sandfield Macdonald (last Premier of Canada West) | Statement: [Premier of Canada West, officeHeldBy, John Sandfield Macdonald (last Premier of Canada West)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sandfield Macdonald (last Premier of Canada West) Context triple: [Premier of Canada West, officeHeldBy, John Sandfield Macdonald (last Premier of Canada West)]
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A.
John Sandfield Macdonald
chosen
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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B.
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.
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C.
Hugh John Macdonald
Hugh John Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Premier of Manitoba and was the only surviving son of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
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D.
Alexander Tilloch Galt
Alexander Tilloch Galt was a Canadian politician, financier, and Father of Confederation who played a key role in developing Canada’s railway system and national economic policy in the 19th century.
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E.
John Ross Macdonald
John Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar, a Canadian-American crime writer best known for his Lew Archer detective novels that helped define mid-20th-century hardboiled fiction.
- 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_69e0b4cc69f481908e98751e697b9df4 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c2aef2e08190a779ed1d516ecba7 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:39 p.m.