Triple
T19664279
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Donald William Johnston |
E472161
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Donald William Johnston
Donald William Johnston was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former president of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
|
E1388516
|
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: Donald William Johnston | Statement: [Donald William Johnston, name, Donald William Johnston]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald William Johnston Context triple: [Donald William Johnston, name, Donald William Johnston]
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A.
Donald William Johnston
Donald William Johnston, better known as Bob Johnston, was an American record producer renowned for his work with iconic artists such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Leonard Cohen in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Donald Neil Johnston
Donald Neil Johnston, better known as Neil Johnston, was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball center who starred for the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1950s.
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C.
Donald Johnston
Donald Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish distiller best known for establishing the Laphroaig whisky distillery on the island of Islay.
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D.
J. Donald Cameron
J. Donald Cameron was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War and a long-time U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, succeeding his influential father Simon Cameron in political prominence.
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E.
Don Dunstan
Don Dunstan was a prominent Australian politician and reformist Premier of South Australia, renowned for his progressive social, cultural, and legal reforms in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Donald William Johnston Triple: [Donald William Johnston, name, Donald William Johnston]
Generated description
Donald William Johnston was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former president of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald William Johnston Target entity description: Donald William Johnston was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former president of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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A.
Donald William Johnston
Donald William Johnston, better known as Bob Johnston, was an American record producer renowned for his work with iconic artists such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Leonard Cohen in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Donald Neil Johnston
Donald Neil Johnston, better known as Neil Johnston, was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball center who starred for the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1950s.
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C.
Donald Johnston
Donald Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish distiller best known for establishing the Laphroaig whisky distillery on the island of Islay.
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D.
J. Donald Cameron
J. Donald Cameron was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War and a long-time U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, succeeding his influential father Simon Cameron in political prominence.
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E.
Don Dunstan
Don Dunstan was a prominent Australian politician and reformist Premier of South Australia, renowned for his progressive social, cultural, and legal reforms in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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_69d8e514f2e08190ba70a4449519d218 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6416749d48190b141a6acd20c9694 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 3:08 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a077ef8b8d08190a2f408e45e44d430 |
completed | May 15, 2026, 8:15 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a077fcef0288190a6c82be17c29a4ae |
completed | May 15, 2026, 8:19 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0780a281248190a1056b682f0aa952 |
completed | May 15, 2026, 8:22 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.