Triple

T18589576
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ross Macdonald E454326 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object John Ross Macdonald
John Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar, a Canadian-American crime writer best known for his Lew Archer detective novels that helped define mid-20th-century hardboiled fiction.
 E1337662 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: John Ross Macdonald | Statement: [Ross Macdonald, alsoKnownAs, John Ross Macdonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Ross Macdonald
Context triple: [Ross Macdonald, alsoKnownAs, John Ross Macdonald]
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. Robert Henry Macdonald
    Robert Henry Macdonald is a businessman best known as a co-founder of the company Ross and Macdonald.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
    Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • E. John A. MacDonald
    John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
  • 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: John Ross Macdonald
Triple: [Ross Macdonald, alsoKnownAs, John Ross Macdonald]
Generated description
John Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar, a Canadian-American crime writer best known for his Lew Archer detective novels that helped define mid-20th-century hardboiled fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Ross Macdonald
Target entity description: John Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar, a Canadian-American crime writer best known for his Lew Archer detective novels that helped define mid-20th-century hardboiled fiction.
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. Robert Henry Macdonald
    Robert Henry Macdonald is a businessman best known as a co-founder of the company Ross and Macdonald.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
    Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • E. John A. MacDonald
    John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
  • 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_69d8d38ae7e081908a98df1251842402 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e545b4a2a0819098047ee81278bd9d completed April 19, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05233eb5ec8190acb14c9e66b879ff completed May 14, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0524327ebc8190a613c84cff540d59 completed May 14, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0527d674fc81908fe4f90ae667802c completed May 14, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.