Triple

T2446792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cariboo Gold Rush E53611 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Governor James Douglas
Governor James Douglas was the colonial governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia who played a key role in administering and responding to the Cariboo Gold Rush in the 1860s.
 E267682 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: Governor James Douglas | Statement: [Cariboo Gold Rush, associatedWith, Governor James Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Governor James Douglas
Context triple: [Cariboo Gold Rush, associatedWith, Governor James Douglas]
  • A. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a prominent Scottish knight and close ally of Robert the Bruce, renowned for his guerrilla warfare tactics against the English during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • B. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a key early leader and philanthropist in American public health who helped establish what became the American Cancer Society.
  • C. Samuel R. Thurston
    Samuel R. Thurston was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Oregon Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • D. Hiram Sibley
    Hiram Sibley was a 19th-century American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for organizing and leading Western Union into the dominant telegraph company in the United States.
  • E. Wilson M. Tigard
    Wilson M. Tigard was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Tigard, Oregon, was named.
  • 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: Governor James Douglas
Triple: [Cariboo Gold Rush, associatedWith, Governor James Douglas]
Generated description
Governor James Douglas was the colonial governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia who played a key role in administering and responding to the Cariboo Gold Rush in the 1860s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Governor James Douglas
Target entity description: Governor James Douglas was the colonial governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia who played a key role in administering and responding to the Cariboo Gold Rush in the 1860s.
  • A. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a prominent Scottish knight and close ally of Robert the Bruce, renowned for his guerrilla warfare tactics against the English during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • B. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a key early leader and philanthropist in American public health who helped establish what became the American Cancer Society.
  • C. Samuel R. Thurston
    Samuel R. Thurston was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Oregon Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • D. Hiram Sibley
    Hiram Sibley was a 19th-century American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for organizing and leading Western Union into the dominant telegraph company in the United States.
  • E. Wilson M. Tigard
    Wilson M. Tigard was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Tigard, Oregon, was named.
  • 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_69ab495d227c8190b26ae6548eeb1019 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abca25a84c8190859bf51000beffec completed March 7, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0bd7a088190b635a8bac233c5cd completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef50bc7ac8190add8ee63c5621dc1 completed March 9, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef632e2e08190b21023cbb0f12be8 completed March 9, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:43 p.m.