Triple

T22880950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada E567465 entity
Predicate notableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Sir John Thompson
Sir John Thompson was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, serving from 1892 until his sudden death in 1894, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold the office.
E1559025 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 Thompson | Statement: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, notableBurial, Sir John Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Thompson
Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, notableBurial, Sir John Thompson]
  • A. Sir John Thompson
    Sir John Thompson was a senior Royal Air Force commander who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command.
  • B. 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.
  • C. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay is a young, sensitive son of the Ramsay family in Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," whose evolving perceptions and relationships reflect the book’s themes of time, family, and artistic vision.
  • E. Sir John Johnson
    Sir John Johnson was a prominent Loyalist leader and British colonial official during the American Revolutionary War, known for organizing and commanding Loyalist forces against the revolutionaries.
  • 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 Thompson
Triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, notableBurial, Sir John Thompson]
Generated description
Sir John Thompson was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, serving from 1892 until his sudden death in 1894, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold the office.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Thompson
Target entity description: Sir John Thompson was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, serving from 1892 until his sudden death in 1894, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold the office.
  • A. Sir John Thompson
    Sir John Thompson was a senior Royal Air Force commander who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command.
  • B. 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.
  • C. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay is a young, sensitive son of the Ramsay family in Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," whose evolving perceptions and relationships reflect the book’s themes of time, family, and artistic vision.
  • E. Sir John Johnson
    Sir John Johnson was a prominent Loyalist leader and British colonial official during the American Revolutionary War, known for organizing and commanding Loyalist forces against the revolutionaries.
  • 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.