Triple

T22360052
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colonel By Lake E552755 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Colonel John By
Colonel John By was a British military engineer best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada, around which the city of Ottawa later developed.
E1532413 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: Colonel John By | Statement: [Colonel By Lake, namedAfter, Colonel John By]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John By
Context triple: [Colonel By Lake, namedAfter, Colonel John By]
  • A. Charles Wolfe
    Charles Wolfe was an Irish poet and clergyman best known for his elegiac poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna."
  • B. William Ormsby
    William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
  • C. William Roy
    William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
  • D. Colonel William Baillie
    Colonel William Baillie was a British East India Company officer best known for his ill-fated command and capture during the 1780 campaigns of the Second Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan.
  • E. Charles Bagot
    Charles Bagot was a British diplomat and colonial administrator best known for negotiating the Rush–Bagot Agreement that helped demilitarize the U.S.–Canada border after the War of 1812.
  • 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: Colonel John By
Triple: [Colonel By Lake, namedAfter, Colonel John By]
Generated description
Colonel John By was a British military engineer best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada, around which the city of Ottawa later developed.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John By
Target entity description: Colonel John By was a British military engineer best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada, around which the city of Ottawa later developed.
  • A. Charles Wolfe
    Charles Wolfe was an Irish poet and clergyman best known for his elegiac poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna."
  • B. William Ormsby
    William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
  • C. William Roy
    William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
  • D. Colonel William Baillie
    Colonel William Baillie was a British East India Company officer best known for his ill-fated command and capture during the 1780 campaigns of the Second Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan.
  • E. Charles Bagot
    Charles Bagot was a British diplomat and colonial administrator best known for negotiating the Rush–Bagot Agreement that helped demilitarize the U.S.–Canada border after the War of 1812.
  • 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_69e11e4affcc8190ba7c27d29062558d completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f157d3852c819082518851568e1b51 completed April 29, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ae061d4648190926598d971674630 completed May 18, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ae17a4d48819094ea2bc413fcb19f completed May 18, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ae259a6f88190b0ecd726591710b3 completed May 18, 2026, 9:56 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:44 p.m.