Triple

T2651245
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Irving family E53902 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object James K. Irving
James K. Irving is a Canadian billionaire industrialist who leads major Irving family enterprises in forestry, energy, and transportation based in New Brunswick.
 E287089 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 K. Irving | Statement: [Irving family, notableMember, James K. Irving]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James K. Irving
Context triple: [Irving family, notableMember, James K. Irving]
  • A. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • B. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Phoenix Suns to multiple playoff appearances, including a trip to the 1976 NBA Finals.
  • C. C. W. Orr
    C. W. Orr was an English composer best known for his art songs, particularly his settings of A. E. Housman's poetry.
  • D. Angus Campbell
    Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
  • E. Mark MacGuigan
    Mark MacGuigan was a Canadian Liberal politician, law professor, and federal cabinet minister who notably served as Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1980s.
  • 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 K. Irving
Triple: [Irving family, notableMember, James K. Irving]
Generated description
James K. Irving is a Canadian billionaire industrialist who leads major Irving family enterprises in forestry, energy, and transportation based in New Brunswick.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James K. Irving
Target entity description: James K. Irving is a Canadian billionaire industrialist who leads major Irving family enterprises in forestry, energy, and transportation based in New Brunswick.
  • A. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • B. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Phoenix Suns to multiple playoff appearances, including a trip to the 1976 NBA Finals.
  • C. C. W. Orr
    C. W. Orr was an English composer best known for his art songs, particularly his settings of A. E. Housman's poetry.
  • D. Angus Campbell
    Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
  • E. Mark MacGuigan
    Mark MacGuigan was a Canadian Liberal politician, law professor, and federal cabinet minister who notably served as Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1980s.
  • 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.