Triple

T21739785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John A. Macdonald E536623 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John — 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 | Statement: [John A. Macdonald, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John A. Macdonald, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John Vassall Jr. was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John George Graves, a notable British mail-order entrepreneur and philanthropist from Sheffield.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
  • A. John chosen
    John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, a 19th-century Canadian politician who served as the first Premier of Ontario.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and a key figure in early Canadian colonial administration.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of John Tory, a Canadian politician and former mayor of Toronto.
  • E. John
    John is the first name of Canadian politician Jack Layton, a prominent former leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0c46df5448190b4322127ffc4c690 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f01a714c208190b96efe23ed3bf0db completed April 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:49 p.m.