Triple

T19763659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pacific Fur Company E474694 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Alexander MacKay
Alexander MacKay was a Canadian fur trader and explorer active in the early North American fur trade, notably involved in Pacific Northwest ventures.
 E1393953 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: Alexander MacKay | Statement: [Pacific Fur Company, employed, Alexander MacKay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander MacKay
Context triple: [Pacific Fur Company, employed, Alexander MacKay]
  • A. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Phoenix Suns to multiple playoff appearances, including a trip to the 1976 NBA Finals.
  • B. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod is known as the husband of Prudence Murdoch, the eldest daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
  • C. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod was a 19th-century Scottish figure known primarily as a son of the influential Church of Scotland minister and Gaelic scholar Norman MacLeod.
  • D. Lewis Macdonald
    Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held various ministerial and parliamentary roles.
  • E. John C. Munro
    John C. Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, notably representing the Hamilton area.
  • 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: Alexander MacKay
Triple: [Pacific Fur Company, employed, Alexander MacKay]
Generated description
Alexander MacKay was a Canadian fur trader and explorer active in the early North American fur trade, notably involved in Pacific Northwest ventures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander MacKay
Target entity description: Alexander MacKay was a Canadian fur trader and explorer active in the early North American fur trade, notably involved in Pacific Northwest ventures.
  • A. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Phoenix Suns to multiple playoff appearances, including a trip to the 1976 NBA Finals.
  • B. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod is known as the husband of Prudence Murdoch, the eldest daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
  • C. John MacLeod
    John MacLeod was a 19th-century Scottish figure known primarily as a son of the influential Church of Scotland minister and Gaelic scholar Norman MacLeod.
  • D. Lewis Macdonald
    Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held various ministerial and parliamentary roles.
  • E. John C. Munro
    John C. Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, notably representing the Hamilton area.
  • 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_69d8e51a43a08190956bc6df13c91a77 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65321a35c819084556118ad4ef1ee completed April 20, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd6e35248190a53efc6f2c4eda89 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07be323d8c819091566255921e4d4d completed May 16, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bef941a08190bd4b1958afe199fa completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.