Triple

T3467013
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor-General of Bengal E73161 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object John Macpherson
John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
E393273 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: John Macpherson | Statement: [Governor-General of Bengal, officeHolder, John Macpherson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Macpherson
Context triple: [Governor-General of Bengal, officeHolder, John Macpherson]
  • A. James Anthony Carmichael
    James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
  • B. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William McGillivray
    William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Richard Macdonald
    Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
  • 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: John Macpherson
Triple: [Governor-General of Bengal, officeHolder, John Macpherson]
Generated description
John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Macpherson
Target entity description: John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
  • A. James Anthony Carmichael
    James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
  • B. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William McGillivray
    William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Richard Macdonald
    Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
  • 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_69ad85b224d481908ff8be51338d24ff completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb1090188190ac8aafd87dfaa6a7 completed March 8, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b503d9643881909737836640c22802 completed March 14, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b504a31de08190b543549a2b05b038 completed March 14, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5084c8bd48190b7afc80bed196c90 completed March 14, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.