Triple

T10528956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chancellor of Carleton University E248381 entity
Predicate officeHoldersInclude P537 FINISHED
Object Robert Gordon Robertson
Robert Gordon Robertson was a prominent Canadian civil servant and public administrator who served as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and later held senior leadership roles in academia and government.
E869618 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: Robert Gordon Robertson | Statement: [Chancellor of Carleton University, officeHoldersInclude, Robert Gordon Robertson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Gordon Robertson
Context triple: [Chancellor of Carleton University, officeHoldersInclude, Robert Gordon Robertson]
  • A. Jim Macpherson
    Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
  • B. Robert Baillie
    Robert Baillie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and prolific letter-writer who played a prominent role in the religious and political struggles of the Covenanter movement.
  • C. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • D. William Adamson
    William Adamson was a Scottish Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for Scotland in the early 20th century and played a key role in the party’s rise to government.
  • E. James Glencairn Burns
    James Glencairn Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily as a member of the poet’s immediate family.
  • 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: Robert Gordon Robertson
Triple: [Chancellor of Carleton University, officeHoldersInclude, Robert Gordon Robertson]
Generated description
Robert Gordon Robertson was a prominent Canadian civil servant and public administrator who served as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and later held senior leadership roles in academia and government.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Gordon Robertson
Target entity description: Robert Gordon Robertson was a prominent Canadian civil servant and public administrator who served as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and later held senior leadership roles in academia and government.
  • A. Jim Macpherson
    Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
  • B. Robert Baillie
    Robert Baillie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and prolific letter-writer who played a prominent role in the religious and political struggles of the Covenanter movement.
  • C. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • D. William Adamson
    William Adamson was a Scottish Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for Scotland in the early 20th century and played a key role in the party’s rise to government.
  • E. James Glencairn Burns
    James Glencairn Burns was a son of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily as a member of the poet’s immediate family.
  • 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_69d381c5c7448190bec34bee7ec72bac completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509f6f4a88190ae6e0cc0bcbff0c5 completed April 7, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90e3caf4c8190b19199f1a68a00de completed April 10, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d9107f488481908845aef0fdf6d60d completed April 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d911790010819093fc50952502fd59 completed April 10, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:30 p.m.