Triple

T4700835
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDonough E104264 entity
Predicate hasVariant P455 FINISHED
Object Mac Donough
Mac Donough is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McDonough, commonly associated with families of Gaelic origin.
E464314 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: Mac Donough | Statement: [McDonough, hasVariant, Mac Donough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mac Donough
Context triple: [McDonough, hasVariant, Mac Donough]
  • A. William F. Connell
    William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
  • B. Alvan C. Gillem
    Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
  • C. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • D. Charles Devens
    Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
  • E. Robert B. Anderson
    Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • 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: Mac Donough
Triple: [McDonough, hasVariant, Mac Donough]
Generated description
Mac Donough is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McDonough, commonly associated with families of Gaelic origin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mac Donough
Target entity description: Mac Donough is a variant spelling of the Irish surname McDonough, commonly associated with families of Gaelic origin.
  • A. William F. Connell
    William F. Connell was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Boston College to name its nursing school in his honor.
  • B. Alvan C. Gillem
    Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
  • C. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • D. Charles Devens
    Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
  • E. Robert B. Anderson
    Robert B. Anderson was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • 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_69bd43e9b88481908582103dcadff3d9 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd63cd447081908120ee1691009982 completed March 20, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be1062fa8c81909263e6757ef7c2d5 completed March 21, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be1485bcf0819096693abc5fbf34e3 completed March 21, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be153db02881908a28b3ede1fdcb54 completed March 21, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:17 p.m.