Triple
T3553488
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James T. Sutherland |
E75164
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Thomas Sutherland |
E75164
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Thomas Sutherland | Statement: [James T. Sutherland, knownAs, James Thomas Sutherland]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Thomas Sutherland Context triple: [James T. Sutherland, knownAs, James Thomas Sutherland]
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A.
Thomas Sutherland
Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
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B.
James T. Sutherland
chosen
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
William John Cunningham
William John Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his success with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
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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.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85d33c6c819081d5ac1df13b5680 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc05394888190b59fafda97b49beb |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b51c620ee881908cd766212ee037cb |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:29 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:20 p.m.