Triple

T21782338
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hugh John Macdonald E537742 entity
Predicate hasGivenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of Hugh John Macdonald, a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former premier of Manitoba.
E1501884 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: John | Statement: [Hugh John Macdonald, hasGivenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [Hugh John Macdonald, hasGivenName, 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.
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: John
Triple: [Hugh John Macdonald, hasGivenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of Hugh John Macdonald, a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former premier of Manitoba.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of Hugh John Macdonald, a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former premier of Manitoba.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, a 19th-century Canadian politician who served as the first Premier of Ontario.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Reid, a Canadian politician.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of Canadian politician Jack Layton, a prominent former leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e0c47198f881908cb0d237266c10e9 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0462ed0ec81908833e18c164e8b5c completed April 28, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3e68562c8190b60115937a329557 completed May 17, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a3f5813a081909f253f04ca218559 completed May 17, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a400831d881909631e1accd5618f1 completed May 17, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:52 p.m.