Triple

T17924911
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George William Ross E448167 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object James Whitney
James Whitney was a Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician who served as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 to 1914.
E1298496 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: James Whitney | Statement: [George William Ross, succeededBy, James Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Whitney
Context triple: [George William Ross, succeededBy, James Whitney]
  • A. James Whittaker
    James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
  • B. William Whitley
    William Whitley was an early American frontiersman and pioneer whose legacy in settling and defending the frontier led to places such as Whitley County, Indiana being named in his honor.
  • C. William Whitfield
    William Whitfield was a prominent British architect known for major postwar projects including the redevelopment of Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
  • D. James Wheeler
    James Wheeler is an American entrepreneur best known as a founder of the consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy.
  • E. William Wheeler
    William Wheeler is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as the biographical drama "Queen of Katwe."
  • 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: James Whitney
Triple: [George William Ross, succeededBy, James Whitney]
Generated description
James Whitney was a Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician who served as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 to 1914.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Whitney
Target entity description: James Whitney was a Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician who served as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 to 1914.
  • A. James Whittaker
    James Whittaker was an early and influential leader of the Shaker religious movement in America, known for helping to organize and spread the sect’s communal, celibate, and egalitarian way of life.
  • B. William Whitley
    William Whitley was an early American frontiersman and pioneer whose legacy in settling and defending the frontier led to places such as Whitley County, Indiana being named in his honor.
  • C. William Whitfield
    William Whitfield was a prominent British architect known for major postwar projects including the redevelopment of Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
  • D. James Wheeler
    James Wheeler is an American entrepreneur best known as a founder of the consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy.
  • E. William Wheeler
    William Wheeler is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as the biographical drama "Queen of Katwe."
  • 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_69d8b9f79d14819095540856928f0e25 completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4a54cf8188190b9bd676443418c23 completed April 19, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0330044a10819091c1328910d2bd58 completed May 12, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0330e780fc8190a905a702c190f218 completed May 12, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03317cff94819086a48b2aae95d2f0 completed May 12, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:20 a.m.