Triple

T3539464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MacLeod E74847 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian author renowned for his powerful short stories and the novel "No Great Mischief," which vividly depict the lives of Cape Breton’s Scottish-descended communities.
E366774 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: Alistair MacLeod | Statement: [MacLeod, hasNotableBearer, Alistair MacLeod]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alistair MacLeod
Context triple: [MacLeod, hasNotableBearer, Alistair MacLeod]
  • A. Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • B. Ann Kelsey
    Ann Kelsey is a sharp, principled attorney on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for her professionalism and complex personal relationships within the firm.
  • C. Campbell McInnes
    Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • D. Laurence McKeown
    Laurence McKeown is an Irish former Provisional IRA member, writer, and academic who became known for his participation in the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike and later work on conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
  • E. Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison was a prolific 20th-century Scottish novelist, poet, and social activist known for her historical and speculative fiction as well as her engagement in feminist and socialist causes.
  • 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: Alistair MacLeod
Triple: [MacLeod, hasNotableBearer, Alistair MacLeod]
Generated description
Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian author renowned for his powerful short stories and the novel "No Great Mischief," which vividly depict the lives of Cape Breton’s Scottish-descended communities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alistair MacLeod
Target entity description: Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian author renowned for his powerful short stories and the novel "No Great Mischief," which vividly depict the lives of Cape Breton’s Scottish-descended communities.
  • A. Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet best known for his Booker Prize–winning novel "The English Patient."
  • B. Ann Kelsey
    Ann Kelsey is a sharp, principled attorney on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for her professionalism and complex personal relationships within the firm.
  • C. Campbell McInnes
    Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • D. Laurence McKeown
    Laurence McKeown is an Irish former Provisional IRA member, writer, and academic who became known for his participation in the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike and later work on conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
  • E. Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison was a prolific 20th-century Scottish novelist, poet, and social activist known for her historical and speculative fiction as well as her engagement in feminist and socialist causes.
  • 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_69ad85d274cc8190ab59c97298a1cfbf completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbccbbb5c8190a951754dda5fc642 completed March 8, 2026, 6:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b38bd7fa3881909fee11cc6f4af7ea completed March 13, 2026, 4 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b38c9259f881908068961f4eaf11a0 completed March 13, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b38d04eb388190af64f990bac8d140 completed March 13, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:20 p.m.