Triple

T21069214
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway E519058 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Lincoln MacCauley Alexander
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and statesman who became the first Black Member of Parliament, federal cabinet minister, and Lieutenant Governor in Canada.
E1464971 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: Lincoln MacCauley Alexander | Statement: [Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, namedAfter, Lincoln MacCauley Alexander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lincoln MacCauley Alexander
Context triple: [Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, namedAfter, Lincoln MacCauley Alexander]
  • A. H. R. MacMillan
    H. R. MacMillan was a prominent Canadian forester, industrialist, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing British Columbia’s forest industry.
  • B. Rut Brandt
    Rut Brandt was a Norwegian-born writer and translator best known as the second wife of German Chancellor Willy Brandt and a prominent figure in postwar European political and cultural life.
  • C. Norman Paterson
    Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
  • D. W. A. C. Bennett
    W. A. C. Bennett was a long-serving premier of British Columbia who oversaw major economic and infrastructure development in the province during the mid-20th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Lincoln MacCauley Alexander
Triple: [Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, namedAfter, Lincoln MacCauley Alexander]
Generated description
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and statesman who became the first Black Member of Parliament, federal cabinet minister, and Lieutenant Governor in Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lincoln MacCauley Alexander
Target entity description: Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and statesman who became the first Black Member of Parliament, federal cabinet minister, and Lieutenant Governor in Canada.
  • A. H. R. MacMillan
    H. R. MacMillan was a prominent Canadian forester, industrialist, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing British Columbia’s forest industry.
  • B. Rut Brandt
    Rut Brandt was a Norwegian-born writer and translator best known as the second wife of German Chancellor Willy Brandt and a prominent figure in postwar European political and cultural life.
  • C. Norman Paterson
    Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
  • D. W. A. C. Bennett
    W. A. C. Bennett was a long-serving premier of British Columbia who oversaw major economic and infrastructure development in the province during the mid-20th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e0b505ef108190b25dd4033e2ff7eb completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6feb6d3a081909d6a6b181786deff completed April 21, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09507392e4819088f52cde6c940b6d completed May 17, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0952ec874081908ef381ebb49e230c completed May 17, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09535799cc81908c78b99762c0b1a0 completed May 17, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:46 p.m.