Triple
T9538613
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Kinnear |
E230087
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entity |
| Predicate | basedOn |
P98
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim)
Thomas Kinnear was a 19th-century Canadian farmer and employer whose 1843 murder, alongside his housekeeper, became notorious and later inspired Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace."
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E804962
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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: Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim) | Statement: [Thomas Kinnear, basedOn, Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim) Context triple: [Thomas Kinnear, basedOn, Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim)]
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A.
Ian Boddy
Ian Boddy is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Owen Sound, Ontario.
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B.
Charles McNaughton
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
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C.
John Christie
John Christie was a British landowner and music patron best known for establishing the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at his country estate.
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D.
Margaret Doherty
Margaret Doherty is best known as the mother of Kieran Doherty, a prominent Irish republican hunger striker and politician.
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E.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
- 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: Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim) Triple: [Thomas Kinnear, basedOn, Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim)]
Generated description
Thomas Kinnear was a 19th-century Canadian farmer and employer whose 1843 murder, alongside his housekeeper, became notorious and later inspired Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Kinnear (historical murder victim) Target entity description: Thomas Kinnear was a 19th-century Canadian farmer and employer whose 1843 murder, alongside his housekeeper, became notorious and later inspired Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace."
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A.
Ian Boddy
Ian Boddy is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Owen Sound, Ontario.
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B.
Charles McNaughton
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
-
C.
John Christie
John Christie was a British landowner and music patron best known for establishing the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at his country estate.
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D.
Margaret Doherty
Margaret Doherty is best known as the mother of Kieran Doherty, a prominent Irish republican hunger striker and politician.
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E.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
- 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_69ca847b1b3081908f72bc932c17cc41 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd98cfead8819089a8f47ea83500a4 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d14c5684308190a9cb2942f7d2f2b0 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d14ce2abe48190b554d08ca34508b0 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 5:39 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d14d6abc9481909401a8cc097c304d |
completed | April 4, 2026, 5:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:01 p.m.