Triple

T5956003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MacEwan University E132515 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Grant MacEwan
Grant MacEwan was a Canadian historian, author, and politician who served as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta and was widely respected for his contributions to public life and Western Canadian history.
E558267 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: Grant MacEwan | Statement: [MacEwan University, namedAfter, Grant MacEwan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grant MacEwan
Context triple: [MacEwan University, namedAfter, Grant MacEwan]
  • A. Izaak Walton Killam
    Izaak Walton Killam was a prominent Canadian financier and philanthropist whose fortune helped establish major educational and research endowments across Canada.
  • B. Norman Morrill
    Norman Morrill is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "Thief."
  • C. Donald William Johnston
    Donald William Johnston, better known as Bob Johnston, was an American record producer renowned for his work with iconic artists such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Leonard Cohen in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Donald C. MacPherson
    Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
  • E. Thomas Sutherland
    Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
  • 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: Grant MacEwan
Triple: [MacEwan University, namedAfter, Grant MacEwan]
Generated description
Grant MacEwan was a Canadian historian, author, and politician who served as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta and was widely respected for his contributions to public life and Western Canadian history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grant MacEwan
Target entity description: Grant MacEwan was a Canadian historian, author, and politician who served as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta and was widely respected for his contributions to public life and Western Canadian history.
  • A. Izaak Walton Killam
    Izaak Walton Killam was a prominent Canadian financier and philanthropist whose fortune helped establish major educational and research endowments across Canada.
  • B. Norman Morrill
    Norman Morrill is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "Thief."
  • C. Donald William Johnston
    Donald William Johnston, better known as Bob Johnston, was an American record producer renowned for his work with iconic artists such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Leonard Cohen in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Donald C. MacPherson
    Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
  • E. Thomas Sutherland
    Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
  • 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_69c0086b05cc8190a8f36a96927a525c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c039c1de80819085c97a0aa2d37f32 completed March 22, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0e3d77fb08190a24d319adc608df5 completed March 23, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0f4d9f7608190a1dc5fadf8c7a050 completed March 23, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0f536b8108190bfe7907c488819f9 completed March 23, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:02 p.m.