Triple

T7104288
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canning E165535 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Merton H. Canning
Merton H. Canning is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Canning, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily documented.
E642436 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: Merton H. Canning | Statement: [Canning, hasNotableBearer, Merton H. Canning]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merton H. Canning
Context triple: [Canning, hasNotableBearer, Merton H. Canning]
  • A. Arthur K. Bolton
    Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
  • B. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • C. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Cyril J. Mockridge
    Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Herbert R. O'Conor
    Herbert R. O'Conor was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maryland and later as a U.S. senator in the mid-20th 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: Merton H. Canning
Triple: [Canning, hasNotableBearer, Merton H. Canning]
Generated description
Merton H. Canning is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Canning, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily documented.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merton H. Canning
Target entity description: Merton H. Canning is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Canning, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily documented.
  • A. Arthur K. Bolton
    Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
  • B. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • C. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Cyril J. Mockridge
    Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Herbert R. O'Conor
    Herbert R. O'Conor was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maryland and later as a U.S. senator in the mid-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_69c6887fcddc8190a5d58908f6dee590 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e58b3f708190bebca7d4c4db40f2 completed March 27, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79cad60788190bb2b17d1c3f8e1cc completed March 28, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d72dd70819084a4bf7e72865ed9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79e12a40c8190b21128e17c3e212e completed March 28, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:42 p.m.