Triple

T21572645
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Osler E532321 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Osler
Osler is a surname most famously associated with Sir William Osler, a pioneering Canadian physician often regarded as one of the founders of modern medical practice and education.
 E1491899 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: Osler | Statement: [William Osler, familyName, Osler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Osler
Context triple: [William Osler, familyName, Osler]
  • A. Town of Osler
    The Town of Osler is a small Canadian community in Saskatchewan that functions as a residential and service centre within the greater Saskatoon region.
  • B. Westmark
    Westmark is a young adult fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander that follows a printer’s apprentice caught up in political upheaval and revolution in a fictional European-style kingdom.
  • C. Woodsworth
    Woodsworth is a surname most notably associated with James Shaver Woodsworth, a pioneering Canadian social reformer and politician who helped found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
  • D. Springhill
    Springhill is a small community located within the Township of King in Ontario, Canada.
  • E. Springhill
    Springhill is a small town located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, historically known for its coal mining industry and devastating mining disasters.
  • 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: Osler
Triple: [William Osler, familyName, Osler]
Generated description
Osler is a surname most famously associated with Sir William Osler, a pioneering Canadian physician often regarded as one of the founders of modern medical practice and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Osler
Target entity description: Osler is a surname most famously associated with Sir William Osler, a pioneering Canadian physician often regarded as one of the founders of modern medical practice and education.
  • A. Town of Osler
    The Town of Osler is a small Canadian community in Saskatchewan that functions as a residential and service centre within the greater Saskatoon region.
  • B. Westmark
    Westmark is a young adult fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander that follows a printer’s apprentice caught up in political upheaval and revolution in a fictional European-style kingdom.
  • C. Woodsworth
    Woodsworth is a surname most notably associated with James Shaver Woodsworth, a pioneering Canadian social reformer and politician who helped found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
  • D. Springhill
    Springhill is a small community located within the Township of King in Ontario, Canada.
  • E. Springhill
    Springhill is a small town located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, historically known for its coal mining industry and devastating mining disasters.
  • 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_69e0c460db088190828c64206a450273 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69eee9ce230c81909e12bd59497e2237 completed April 27, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09f672b5808190a2dd61c26ce64403 completed May 17, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09f78a3d788190b4b19f3b6463550e completed May 17, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09f825b02c819096f57b1dba02ded2 completed May 17, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:30 p.m.