Triple

T20826635
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Sandfield Macdonald E512718 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario and a prominent 19th-century Canadian politician.
E512718 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 | Statement: [John Sandfield Macdonald, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Sandfield Macdonald, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John Vassall Jr. was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • C. John
    John Ross is a personal name shared by various notable individuals across history, including leaders, politicians, and public figures.
  • D. John
    John, Duke of Berry, was a powerful 14th-century French prince renowned as a major patron of the arts, especially for commissioning lavish illuminated manuscripts such as the Très Riches Heures.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of American novelist and historical fiction writer John Jakes, best known for his sprawling family sagas set during pivotal periods of U.S. history.
  • 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
Triple: [John Sandfield Macdonald, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario and a prominent 19th-century Canadian politician.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario and a prominent 19th-century Canadian politician.
  • A. John chosen
    John is the given name of John Sandfield Macdonald, a 19th-century Canadian politician who served as the first Premier of Ontario.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada and a key figure in the country's Confederation.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and a key figure in early Canadian colonial administration.
  • D. John
    John is the first name of John Tory, a Canadian politician and former mayor of Toronto.
  • E. John
    John is the first name of Canadian politician Jack Layton, a prominent former leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0b4ce39108190a6e8e5df4f1c8dc5 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c2fe54608190a061274bf4316610 completed April 21, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a090afb35248190920cb47cfc313be9 completed May 17, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a090bc252dc8190a96a98b2160826b5 completed May 17, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a090cc818b4819089ed588d3e460aa2 completed May 17, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:41 p.m.