Triple
T21915091
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Southam Company Limited |
E541163
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Southam |
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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: William Southam | Statement: [Southam Company Limited, founder, William Southam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Southam Context triple: [Southam Company Limited, founder, William Southam]
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A.
William Southam
chosen
William Southam was a prominent Canadian newspaper publisher and media magnate who helped shape the country’s early 20th-century press landscape.
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B.
Richard M. Blatchford
Richard M. Blatchford was an American lawyer and diplomat best known for co-founding the prominent New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
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C.
Richard Bancroft
Richard Bancroft was an influential English churchman and Archbishop of Canterbury who played a key role in overseeing the production of the King James Bible.
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D.
Charles Pilger
Charles Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
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E.
Philip Bulcock
Philip Bulcock is a British actor and voice artist known for his work in film, television, and audio productions.
- 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_69e0c47c4b9c8190a5586a75f5f36453 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f123366cb88190a42aa741e1245fd9 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:14 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:42 p.m.