Triple

T17298343
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Cunard E419969 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object Abraham Cunard
Abraham Cunard was a merchant and loyalist of German descent in colonial Nova Scotia, best known as the father of shipping magnate Samuel Cunard.
E1262253 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: Abraham Cunard | Statement: [Samuel Cunard, parent, Abraham Cunard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abraham Cunard
Context triple: [Samuel Cunard, parent, Abraham Cunard]
  • A. Samuel Cunard
    Samuel Cunard was a 19th-century British-Canadian shipping magnate best known for pioneering regular transatlantic steamship service and building one of the world’s most influential passenger shipping companies.
  • B. John Isaac Thornycroft
    John Isaac Thornycroft was a British engineer and naval architect renowned for pioneering high-speed naval vessels and founding a major shipbuilding firm.
  • C. John Swire
    John Swire was a 19th-century British merchant and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Swire business group, which grew into a major international trading and conglomerate company.
  • D. Thomas Henry Ismay
    Thomas Henry Ismay was a 19th-century British shipowner and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the White Star Line, one of the era’s most prominent transatlantic shipping companies.
  • E. Isaac Thomas Thornycroft
    Isaac Thomas Thornycroft was a British motorboat designer and racer who won a gold medal in motorboating at the 1908 London Olympics.
  • 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: Abraham Cunard
Triple: [Samuel Cunard, parent, Abraham Cunard]
Generated description
Abraham Cunard was a merchant and loyalist of German descent in colonial Nova Scotia, best known as the father of shipping magnate Samuel Cunard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abraham Cunard
Target entity description: Abraham Cunard was a merchant and loyalist of German descent in colonial Nova Scotia, best known as the father of shipping magnate Samuel Cunard.
  • A. Samuel Cunard
    Samuel Cunard was a 19th-century British-Canadian shipping magnate best known for pioneering regular transatlantic steamship service and building one of the world’s most influential passenger shipping companies.
  • B. John Isaac Thornycroft
    John Isaac Thornycroft was a British engineer and naval architect renowned for pioneering high-speed naval vessels and founding a major shipbuilding firm.
  • C. John Swire
    John Swire was a 19th-century British merchant and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Swire business group, which grew into a major international trading and conglomerate company.
  • D. Thomas Henry Ismay
    Thomas Henry Ismay was a 19th-century British shipowner and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the White Star Line, one of the era’s most prominent transatlantic shipping companies.
  • E. Isaac Thomas Thornycroft
    Isaac Thomas Thornycroft was a British motorboat designer and racer who won a gold medal in motorboating at the 1908 London Olympics.
  • 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_69d886db32608190a61e18862c5a8af6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e438f82788819088ea796850552297 completed April 19, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0180da5b808190857c51aaa2e85339 completed May 11, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01877483608190b311946ba05bcc94 completed May 11, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01880bad1c8190bdce946a04714ad3 completed May 11, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m.