Triple
T21975754
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | J. E. H. MacDonald |
E542700
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Edward Hervey MacDonald |
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|
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: James Edward Hervey MacDonald | Statement: [J. E. H. MacDonald, fullName, James Edward Hervey MacDonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Edward Hervey MacDonald Context triple: [J. E. H. MacDonald, fullName, James Edward Hervey MacDonald]
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A.
William Christopher Macdonald
William Christopher Macdonald was a Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist best known for his major endowments to education, including funding institutions such as the Macdonald Institute.
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B.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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C.
Ewen Macdonald
Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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D.
Ronald Milton MacFarlane
Ronald Milton MacFarlane is best known as the father of American actor, animator, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
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E.
Donald James Mackintosh
Donald James Mackintosh was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross honored for his bravery during World War I.
- 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: James Edward Hervey MacDonald Target entity description: James Edward Hervey MacDonald was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven, known for his influential landscape art that helped define a distinct national style.
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A.
William Christopher Macdonald
William Christopher Macdonald was a Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist best known for his major endowments to education, including funding institutions such as the Macdonald Institute.
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B.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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C.
Ewen Macdonald
Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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D.
Ronald Milton MacFarlane
Ronald Milton MacFarlane is best known as the father of American actor, animator, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
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E.
Donald James Mackintosh
Donald James Mackintosh was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross honored for his bravery during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e0c48070988190909db97667b9a0ac |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f124886418819091daed0988432350 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:20 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:03 p.m.