Triple

T280436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lester B. Pearson E5341 entity
Predicate workedFor P1910 FINISHED
Object Department of External Affairs (Canada)
The Department of External Affairs (Canada) was the federal government department responsible for managing Canada's foreign relations and diplomacy before its functions were merged into Global Affairs Canada.
E36389 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: Department of External Affairs (Canada) | Statement: [Lester B. Pearson, workedFor, Department of External Affairs (Canada)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of External Affairs (Canada)
Context triple: [Lester B. Pearson, workedFor, Department of External Affairs (Canada)]
  • A. Commonwealth Relations Office
    The Commonwealth Relations Office was a British government department responsible for managing the United Kingdom’s diplomatic and political relations with the independent countries of the Commonwealth.
  • B. Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
    The Office of the Prime Minister of Canada is the central political and advisory body that supports the Prime Minister in governing and coordinating federal executive decision-making.
  • C. Cabinet of Canada
    The Cabinet of Canada is the central decision-making body of the Canadian federal executive, composed of the prime minister and selected ministers who direct government policy and administration.
  • D. Auswärtiges Amt
    The Auswärtiges Amt is Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, responsible for the country’s foreign policy and diplomatic relations.
  • E. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office was the United Kingdom government department responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide through diplomacy and international relations before its merger into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
  • 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: Department of External Affairs (Canada)
Triple: [Lester B. Pearson, workedFor, Department of External Affairs (Canada)]
Generated description
The Department of External Affairs (Canada) was the federal government department responsible for managing Canada's foreign relations and diplomacy before its functions were merged into Global Affairs Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of External Affairs (Canada)
Target entity description: The Department of External Affairs (Canada) was the federal government department responsible for managing Canada's foreign relations and diplomacy before its functions were merged into Global Affairs Canada.
  • A. Commonwealth Relations Office
    The Commonwealth Relations Office was a British government department responsible for managing the United Kingdom’s diplomatic and political relations with the independent countries of the Commonwealth.
  • B. Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
    The Office of the Prime Minister of Canada is the central political and advisory body that supports the Prime Minister in governing and coordinating federal executive decision-making.
  • C. Cabinet of Canada
    The Cabinet of Canada is the central decision-making body of the Canadian federal executive, composed of the prime minister and selected ministers who direct government policy and administration.
  • D. Auswärtiges Amt
    The Auswärtiges Amt is Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, responsible for the country’s foreign policy and diplomatic relations.
  • E. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office was the United Kingdom government department responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide through diplomacy and international relations before its merger into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
  • 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_69a257e6c8788190987dfe705ca2912a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25e0868708190ad551ca06cc57f4a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a394a407588190a1f52821fe3b5fc7 completed March 1, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a395524c248190ba42ae1de870a598 completed March 1, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a395d7fc408190a1eb0fea0d0b2838 completed March 1, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.