Triple
T10578221
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Reformers in Upper Canada |
E249664
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLeader |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Lyon Mackenzie |
E249662
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Lyon Mackenzie | Statement: [Reformers in Upper Canada, notableLeader, William Lyon Mackenzie]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lyon Mackenzie Context triple: [Reformers in Upper Canada, notableLeader, William Lyon Mackenzie]
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A.
William Lyon Mackenzie
chosen
William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
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B.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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C.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie is a Canadian businessman best known as a co-founder of the global alternative asset management firm Brookfield Asset Management.
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D.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian railway entrepreneur and financier best known for co-founding and expanding the Canadian Northern Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d381c9d3d48190a29ee491e1696a0e |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d52756ff1c8190a85022748ca58ba5 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d96b59f80c81908afa84e4d9ffefc1 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:27 p.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:38 p.m.