Triple

T2651243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Irving family E53902 entity
Predicate foundingMember P446 FINISHED
Object James Dergavel Irving
James Dergavel Irving was a Canadian businessman best known as the patriarch who established the Irving family's influential industrial and business dynasty in New Brunswick.
 E287087 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: James Dergavel Irving | Statement: [Irving family, foundingMember, James Dergavel Irving]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Dergavel Irving
Context triple: [Irving family, foundingMember, James Dergavel Irving]
  • A. Colin St John Wilson
    Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
  • B. Stephen Moorbath
    Stephen Moorbath was a pioneering British geologist and geochronologist renowned for his work on radiometric dating and establishing the ages of some of the Earth's oldest rocks.
  • C. Philip Christison
    Philip Christison was a British Army general who held senior commands in World War II, particularly in Southeast Asia.
  • D. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • E. Christopher Murray Grieve
    Christopher Murray Grieve was a Scottish poet, journalist, and key figure in the Scottish Renaissance, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid.
  • 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: James Dergavel Irving
Triple: [Irving family, foundingMember, James Dergavel Irving]
Generated description
James Dergavel Irving was a Canadian businessman best known as the patriarch who established the Irving family's influential industrial and business dynasty in New Brunswick.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Dergavel Irving
Target entity description: James Dergavel Irving was a Canadian businessman best known as the patriarch who established the Irving family's influential industrial and business dynasty in New Brunswick.
  • A. Colin St John Wilson
    Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
  • B. Stephen Moorbath
    Stephen Moorbath was a pioneering British geologist and geochronologist renowned for his work on radiometric dating and establishing the ages of some of the Earth's oldest rocks.
  • C. Philip Christison
    Philip Christison was a British Army general who held senior commands in World War II, particularly in Southeast Asia.
  • D. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • E. Christopher Murray Grieve
    Christopher Murray Grieve was a Scottish poet, journalist, and key figure in the Scottish Renaissance, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid.
  • 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_69ab495e192081909c77b622e8e7e15a completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd93071248190820197936e3167f7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98cc2d9881908556b915a1870c02 completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af9a0966a88190b76c50ac801438e2 completed March 10, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af9dfac8048190be715b844eedf064 completed March 10, 2026, 4:28 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.