Triple

T5548088
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Canal E145458 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Hugh Baird
Hugh Baird was a Scottish civil engineer best known for his major role in early 19th-century canal design and construction.
 E583627 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: Hugh Baird | Statement: [Union Canal, designer, Hugh Baird]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hugh Baird
Context triple: [Union Canal, designer, Hugh Baird]
  • A. Henry Warren Beatty
    Henry Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
  • B. Jim Douglas
    Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
  • C. Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Edward Daniels
    Edward "Teddy" Daniels is the U.S. Marshal and psychologically complex protagonist of Dennis Lehane’s novel and Martin Scorsese’s film "Shutter Island."
  • E. Bernard Kilpatrick
    Bernard Kilpatrick is an American political consultant and the father of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, known for his involvement in Detroit-area politics and related corruption investigations.
  • 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: Hugh Baird
Triple: [Union Canal, designer, Hugh Baird]
Generated description
Hugh Baird was a Scottish civil engineer best known for his major role in early 19th-century canal design and construction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hugh Baird
Target entity description: Hugh Baird was a Scottish civil engineer best known for his major role in early 19th-century canal design and construction.
  • A. Henry Warren Beatty
    Henry Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
  • B. Jim Douglas
    Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
  • C. Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Edward Daniels
    Edward "Teddy" Daniels is the U.S. Marshal and psychologically complex protagonist of Dennis Lehane’s novel and Martin Scorsese’s film "Shutter Island."
  • E. Bernard Kilpatrick
    Bernard Kilpatrick is an American political consultant and the father of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, known for his involvement in Detroit-area politics and related corruption investigations.
  • 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_69c008fb879c81909f5bfa56fadc1d46 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01fe0244c8190aeb995f79f22a039 completed March 22, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c5e38ae278819096aefcfbf98873dd completed March 27, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c5e4af6b28819088158c50de820297 completed March 27, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c5e5abb4408190a2a54a26e1479851 completed March 27, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:35 p.m.