Triple

T5656956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John A. Macdonald E124642 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
E536623 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 | Statement: [John A. Macdonald, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John A. Macdonald, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Adams, the prominent American minimalist and post-minimalist composer known for works like "Nixon in China" and "Short Ride in a Fast Machine."
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Boyd-Carpenter, a prominent British Conservative politician who served in several senior government positions in the mid-20th century.
  • C. John
    John is the first name of John Dashwood, a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility."
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of American character actor and comedian Rags Ragland.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of actor John Cho, a Korean American performer known for roles in the "Harold & Kumar" films and the "Star Trek" reboot series.
  • 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
Triple: [John A. Macdonald, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, a 19th-century Canadian politician who served as the first Premier of Ontario.
  • B. John
    John is the first name of John Tory, a Canadian politician and former mayor of Toronto.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Reid, a Canadian politician.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, a prominent 19th-century British statesman and Prime Minister.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Anderson, a British civil servant and politician who played a key role in government during the early 20th century.
  • 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_69c0082774a481909d7e63fb2aad56ac completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022fc54f08190aacc200be31a4256 completed March 22, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04ce1bce4819095559af19cf072f8 completed March 22, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04e8b548c81908adaf54bbe25af35 completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f4c1e34819093e60870c87c8d99 completed March 22, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:42 p.m.