Triple

T23010625
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Bank of Canada E572895 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Merchants Bank of Halifax — 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: Merchants Bank of Halifax | Statement: [Royal Bank of Canada, predecessor, Merchants Bank of Halifax]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Merchants Bank of Halifax
Context triple: [Royal Bank of Canada, predecessor, Merchants Bank of Halifax]
  • A. Merchants Bank of Halifax chosen
    Merchants Bank of Halifax was a Canadian financial institution that evolved into what is now the Royal Bank of Canada, one of the country’s largest and oldest banks.
  • B. Halifax (bank)
    Halifax is a major UK retail bank and mortgage lender known for its extensive branch network and consumer banking services.
  • C. Allan Bank
    Allan Bank is a historic house in Grasmere, England, best known as one of the Lake District homes of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
  • D. Northern Bank
    Northern Bank is a financial institution based in Northern Ireland, historically known as one of the region’s major banks and later rebranded under the Danske Bank name.
  • E. Eastern Bank
    Eastern Bank is a historical term referring to Uruguay, denoting the territory on the eastern bank of the Uruguay River and the Río de la Plata.
  • 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_69e245b764cc8190a51be76f1d9611e1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1835b0cb881908d3d2dd40cffcbc2 completed April 29, 2026, 4:04 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:51 p.m.