Triple
T387478
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Ralston Saul |
E8809
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Ralston Saul |
E8809
|
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: John Ralston Saul | Statement: [John Ralston Saul, name, John Ralston Saul]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ralston Saul Context triple: [John Ralston Saul, name, John Ralston Saul]
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A.
John Ralston Saul
chosen
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual known for his critiques of globalization and advocacy for civic responsibility and democracy.
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B.
John Humphrey
John Humphrey was a Canadian legal scholar and human rights advocate best known as the principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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C.
Percy Nelles
Percy Nelles was a Canadian admiral who served as Chief of the Naval Staff during World War II and played a key leadership role in the Royal Canadian Navy’s efforts in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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D.
Bob Black
Bob Black is an American anarchist writer and social critic best known for his essay "The Abolition of Work" and his critiques of contemporary capitalism and leftist politics.
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E.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau is a Belgian computer scientist best known for co-developing the World Wide Web alongside Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
- 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ec5828d881909e8810061c02480c |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a405f576148190b058300c3bd0d032 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:25 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.