Triple

T22880949
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada E567465 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, a prominent 19th-century lawyer and politician who served briefly as the nation's leader before his sudden death in office.
E1559024 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: Sir John Sparrow David Thompson | Statement: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, notableBurial, Sir John Sparrow David Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, notableBurial, Sir John Sparrow David Thompson]
  • A. James Augustus Grant
    James Augustus Grant was a 19th-century Scottish explorer best known for accompanying John Hanning Speke on the expedition that helped confirm the source of the Nile.
  • B. Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
    Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, was a prominent Scottish-Canadian businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for his role in building the Canadian Pacific Railway and driving its last spike.
  • C. Conrad Chisholm
    Conrad Chisholm was the husband of pioneering U.S. congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm.
  • D. Sir William Macdonald
    Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
  • E. Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
    Alexander Slidell Mackenzie was a 19th-century United States Navy officer and author best known for his controversial handling of the 1842 Somers Mutiny, in which he ordered the execution of three alleged mutineers at sea.
  • 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: Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
Triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, notableBurial, Sir John Sparrow David Thompson]
Generated description
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, a prominent 19th-century lawyer and politician who served briefly as the nation's leader before his sudden death in office.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
Target entity description: Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, a prominent 19th-century lawyer and politician who served briefly as the nation's leader before his sudden death in office.
  • A. James Augustus Grant
    James Augustus Grant was a 19th-century Scottish explorer best known for accompanying John Hanning Speke on the expedition that helped confirm the source of the Nile.
  • B. Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
    Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, was a prominent Scottish-Canadian businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for his role in building the Canadian Pacific Railway and driving its last spike.
  • C. Conrad Chisholm
    Conrad Chisholm was the husband of pioneering U.S. congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm.
  • D. Sir William Macdonald
    Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
  • E. Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
    Alexander Slidell Mackenzie was a 19th-century United States Navy officer and author best known for his controversial handling of the 1842 Somers Mutiny, in which he ordered the execution of three alleged mutineers at sea.
  • 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_69e2458a92ec81908fc1cd5f6407d2ab completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17f5c1ed88190aeac131c5aff6102 completed April 29, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bae9e1a24819087d826cf677fcad5 completed May 19, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bb08f167081908ff4bd13e291afb5 completed May 19, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bb10db81c8190a23d57c422a71675 completed May 19, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:39 p.m.