Triple

T10578328
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject judiciary of Upper Canada E249666 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object William Dummer Powell
William Dummer Powell was a prominent early Canadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Upper Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E872447 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: William Dummer Powell | Statement: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, William Dummer Powell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dummer Powell
Context triple: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, William Dummer Powell]
  • A. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Lewis Thornton Powell
    Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • C. David J. Brewer
    David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
  • D. James Cullen Landis
    James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • E. Thomas M. Cooley
    Thomas M. Cooley was a prominent 19th-century American jurist and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and became an influential authority on constitutional law.
  • 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: William Dummer Powell
Triple: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, William Dummer Powell]
Generated description
William Dummer Powell was a prominent early Canadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Upper Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dummer Powell
Target entity description: William Dummer Powell was a prominent early Canadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Upper Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Lewis Thornton Powell
    Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • C. David J. Brewer
    David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
  • D. James Cullen Landis
    James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • E. Thomas M. Cooley
    Thomas M. Cooley was a prominent 19th-century American jurist and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and became an influential authority on constitutional law.
  • 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_69d381c9d3d48190a29ee491e1696a0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d52756ff1c8190a85022748ca58ba5 completed April 7, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d94b6f43f4819092557d1c6039324a completed April 10, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d94ca07da481908f2d546f8ddc9326 completed April 10, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d94e8687bc819082b672a64bf85500 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:38 p.m.