Triple

T5656989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John A. Macdonald E124642 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Hugh John Macdonald
Hugh John Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Premier of Manitoba and was the only surviving son of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
E537742 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 John Macdonald | Statement: [John A. Macdonald, child, Hugh John Macdonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh John Macdonald
Context triple: [John A. Macdonald, child, Hugh John Macdonald]
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sir Charles Tupper
    Sir Charles Tupper was a Canadian Father of Confederation and the sixth Prime Minister of Canada, known for his role in bringing Nova Scotia into Confederation and his long political career.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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."
  • 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 John Macdonald
Triple: [John A. Macdonald, child, Hugh John Macdonald]
Generated description
Hugh John Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Premier of Manitoba and was the only surviving son of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh John Macdonald
Target entity description: Hugh John Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Premier of Manitoba and was the only surviving son of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sir Charles Tupper
    Sir Charles Tupper was a Canadian Father of Confederation and the sixth Prime Minister of Canada, known for his role in bringing Nova Scotia into Confederation and his long political career.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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."
  • 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_69c04d9ec1248190aff680acb4064a49 completed March 22, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04ede30088190a70607458f4653d0 completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04fb365cc8190b825f7c1d66aee0f completed March 22, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:42 p.m.