Triple
T8159989
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) |
E190551
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, was a prominent Scottish-Canadian businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for his role in building the Canadian Pacific Railway and driving its last spike.
|
E715287
|
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: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal | Statement: [Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), namedAfter, Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal Context triple: [Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), namedAfter, Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal]
-
A.
Sir William Macdonald
Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
-
B.
Conrad Chisholm
Conrad Chisholm was the husband of pioneering U.S. congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm.
-
C.
Guy Carleton
Guy Carleton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in defending Canada during the American Revolutionary War and later serving as Governor of Quebec.
-
D.
Sir John Young, Baron Lisgar
Sir John Young, Baron Lisgar was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and statesman who served as the second Governor General of Canada after Confederation.
-
E.
Robert Henry Macdonald
Robert Henry Macdonald is a businessman best known as a co-founder of the company Ross and Macdonald.
- 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: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal Triple: [Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), namedAfter, Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal]
Generated description
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, was a prominent Scottish-Canadian businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for his role in building the Canadian Pacific Railway and driving its last spike.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal Target entity description: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, was a prominent Scottish-Canadian businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for his role in building the Canadian Pacific Railway and driving its last spike.
-
A.
Sir William Macdonald
Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
-
B.
Conrad Chisholm
Conrad Chisholm was the husband of pioneering U.S. congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm.
-
C.
Guy Carleton
Guy Carleton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in defending Canada during the American Revolutionary War and later serving as Governor of Quebec.
-
D.
Sir John Young, Baron Lisgar
Sir John Young, Baron Lisgar was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and statesman who served as the second Governor General of Canada after Confederation.
-
E.
Robert Henry Macdonald
Robert Henry Macdonald is a businessman best known as a co-founder of the company Ross and Macdonald.
- 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_69ca82bfeb6481909d07b91b5cf69f59 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb45537d248190a0e998b6d336e6e1 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:53 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ccbf2c22f0819085c686c005f49486 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 6:46 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ccc24c5684819093a4f58616122675 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 6:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ccc38e85bc8190b0f4b2435a385f47 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 7:04 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:38 p.m.