Triple
T4861327
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film) |
E108665
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entity |
| Predicate | producer |
P490
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John A. MacDonald
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
|
E474449
|
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 A. MacDonald | Statement: [The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), producer, John A. MacDonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. MacDonald Context triple: [The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), producer, John A. MacDonald]
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A.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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B.
John A. Macdonald
John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
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C.
George-Étienne Cartier
George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
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D.
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
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E.
Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
- 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 A. MacDonald Triple: [The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), producer, John A. MacDonald]
Generated description
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. MacDonald Target entity description: John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
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A.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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B.
John A. Macdonald
John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
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C.
George-Étienne Cartier
George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
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D.
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
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E.
Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
- 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6d5f62b48190b367ed1b850cfbcb |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be5cf921cc8190a092bb69c1981890 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 8:55 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69be5e833ca88190b89dda5cafb180fe |
completed | March 21, 2026, 9:01 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69be5eed97a08190afd99a0700f1f4c7 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 9:03 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.