Triple

T6713084
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Red River Colony E153194 entity
Predicate notableLeader P304 FINISHED
Object Governor William MacTavish
Governor William MacTavish was a 19th-century Hudson’s Bay Company official who served as the last governor of Assiniboia and played a key role in the final years of the Red River Settlement before Canadian Confederation.
E613513 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: Governor William MacTavish | Statement: [Red River Colony, notableLeader, Governor William MacTavish]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor William MacTavish
Context triple: [Red River Colony, notableLeader, Governor William MacTavish]
  • A. Governor James Douglas
    Governor James Douglas was the colonial governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia who played a key role in administering and responding to the Cariboo Gold Rush in the 1860s.
  • B. Governor John Sullivan
    Governor John Sullivan was an American Revolutionary War general and early political leader who served as governor of New Hampshire in the late 18th century.
  • C. Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge
    Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge was a late 19th-century Republican governor of Massachusetts known for his progressive reforms and for helping to establish Patriots’ Day as a state holiday.
  • D. Governor Bellingham
    Governor Bellingham is a stern, aristocratic colonial magistrate in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter," symbolizing the rigid authority and moral judgment of Puritan society.
  • E. John Houstoun
    John Houstoun was an American lawyer and politician who served as a governor of Georgia during the late 18th century.
  • 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: Governor William MacTavish
Triple: [Red River Colony, notableLeader, Governor William MacTavish]
Generated description
Governor William MacTavish was a 19th-century Hudson’s Bay Company official who served as the last governor of Assiniboia and played a key role in the final years of the Red River Settlement before Canadian Confederation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor William MacTavish
Target entity description: Governor William MacTavish was a 19th-century Hudson’s Bay Company official who served as the last governor of Assiniboia and played a key role in the final years of the Red River Settlement before Canadian Confederation.
  • A. Governor James Douglas
    Governor James Douglas was the colonial governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia who played a key role in administering and responding to the Cariboo Gold Rush in the 1860s.
  • B. Governor John Sullivan
    Governor John Sullivan was an American Revolutionary War general and early political leader who served as governor of New Hampshire in the late 18th century.
  • C. Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge
    Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge was a late 19th-century Republican governor of Massachusetts known for his progressive reforms and for helping to establish Patriots’ Day as a state holiday.
  • D. Governor Bellingham
    Governor Bellingham is a stern, aristocratic colonial magistrate in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter," symbolizing the rigid authority and moral judgment of Puritan society.
  • E. John Houstoun
    John Houstoun was an American lawyer and politician who served as a governor of Georgia during the late 18th 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_69c68809b4608190a2509ddb5ab87f05 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d121a92c8190a03f384a8aba84da completed March 27, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c700948788819087f9b466be337286 completed March 27, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c703ad7e0c81908da32c96806f3b07 completed March 27, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7042f23408190b06faafcb3251276 completed March 27, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:07 p.m.