Triple

T6409692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject UBC Botanical Garden E127672 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object John Davidson
John Davidson was a Scottish-born botanist and educator who became British Columbia’s first provincial botanist and established the UBC Botanical Garden as a center for plant research and public education.
 E590691 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 Davidson | Statement: [UBC Botanical Garden, founder, John Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Davidson
Context triple: [UBC Botanical Garden, founder, John Davidson]
  • A. John Davidson
    John Davidson is a former NHL goaltender who became a prominent American hockey broadcaster and television analyst.
  • B. John Davidson
    John Davidson is an American television personality, actor, and singer best known for hosting popular game shows and variety programs from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  • C. Dwight Hansen
    Dwight Hansen is the abusive and manipulative stepfather figure in Tobias Wolff’s memoir and its film adaptation "This Boy’s Life."
  • D. Kevin Daley
    Kevin Daley is one of the children of the late Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley and former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
  • E. David Kirk
    David Kirk is a former New Zealand rugby union scrum-half best known for captaining the All Blacks to their first Rugby World Cup victory in 1987.
  • 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 Davidson
Triple: [UBC Botanical Garden, founder, John Davidson]
Generated description
John Davidson was a Scottish-born botanist and educator who became British Columbia’s first provincial botanist and established the UBC Botanical Garden as a center for plant research and public education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Davidson
Target entity description: John Davidson was a Scottish-born botanist and educator who became British Columbia’s first provincial botanist and established the UBC Botanical Garden as a center for plant research and public education.
  • A. John Davidson
    John Davidson is a former NHL goaltender who became a prominent American hockey broadcaster and television analyst.
  • B. John Davidson
    John Davidson is an American television personality, actor, and singer best known for hosting popular game shows and variety programs from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  • C. Dwight Hansen
    Dwight Hansen is the abusive and manipulative stepfather figure in Tobias Wolff’s memoir and its film adaptation "This Boy’s Life."
  • D. Kevin Daley
    Kevin Daley is one of the children of the late Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley and former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
  • E. David Kirk
    David Kirk is a former New Zealand rugby union scrum-half best known for captaining the All Blacks to their first Rugby World Cup victory in 1987.
  • 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_69c0083723d88190b1e37b19df162c08 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068cf81508190bc09e58ec45bc858 completed March 22, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c638b7582481909640965acf261dff completed March 27, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c63b74688881909bb41db1ec89daf6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c63be025c88190b24cf4168b8194a0 completed March 27, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:41 p.m.