Triple
T20763325
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Minister of Militia and Defence |
E511025
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHeldBy |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Edward Mortimer Macdonald
Edward Mortimer Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served in several federal cabinet posts in the early 20th century.
|
E1449852
|
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: Edward Mortimer Macdonald | Statement: [Minister of Militia and Defence, officeHeldBy, Edward Mortimer Macdonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Mortimer Macdonald Context triple: [Minister of Militia and Defence, officeHeldBy, Edward Mortimer Macdonald]
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A.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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B.
Murray Matheson
Murray Matheson was an Australian-born character actor known for his numerous television and film roles in the mid-20th century, often portraying refined or enigmatic figures.
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C.
William A. Lyon
William A. Lyon was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Holt Mackenzie
Holt Mackenzie was a British colonial administrator in India known for helping design and implement early 19th-century land revenue and settlement reforms in North India.
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E.
William Christopher Macdonald
William Christopher Macdonald was a Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist best known for his major endowments to education, including funding institutions such as the Macdonald Institute.
- 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: Edward Mortimer Macdonald Triple: [Minister of Militia and Defence, officeHeldBy, Edward Mortimer Macdonald]
Generated description
Edward Mortimer Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served in several federal cabinet posts in the early 20th century.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Mortimer Macdonald Target entity description: Edward Mortimer Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served in several federal cabinet posts in the early 20th century.
-
A.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
-
B.
Murray Matheson
Murray Matheson was an Australian-born character actor known for his numerous television and film roles in the mid-20th century, often portraying refined or enigmatic figures.
-
C.
William A. Lyon
William A. Lyon was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Holt Mackenzie
Holt Mackenzie was a British colonial administrator in India known for helping design and implement early 19th-century land revenue and settlement reforms in North India.
-
E.
William Christopher Macdonald
William Christopher Macdonald was a Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist best known for his major endowments to education, including funding institutions such as the Macdonald Institute.
- 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_69e0b4ca01148190ac018e57e0cab46f |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c24a154c8190a9062923308d2411 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:18 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a08ef893de48190811d4d34296ce34d |
completed | May 16, 2026, 10:28 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a08f34a218c81909fe2573f4549411c |
completed | May 16, 2026, 10:44 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a08f3fc2ec88190a7a7eed11d51ec8e |
completed | May 16, 2026, 10:47 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:35 p.m.