Triple

T10578331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject judiciary of Upper Canada E249666 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object James Macaulay (judge)
James Macaulay was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a key role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
E872450 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: James Macaulay (judge) | Statement: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, James Macaulay (judge)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Macaulay (judge)
Context triple: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, James Macaulay (judge)]
  • A. Thomas Erskine
    Thomas Erskine was a prominent British lawyer and Whig politician renowned for his eloquent advocacy of civil liberties and landmark defenses of free speech in late 18th-century England.
  • B. Lord Justice James
    Lord Justice James was a prominent 19th-century British appellate judge renowned for his influential decisions in equity and Chancery law.
  • C. George Mackenzie (Lord Advocate)
    George Mackenzie was a 17th-century Scottish lawyer, politician, and Lord Advocate, notorious for his harsh persecution of Covenanters and remembered as a key figure in Scotland’s legal history.
  • D. Sir John Robertson
    Sir John Robertson was a prominent 19th-century Australian politician and reformist Premier of New South Wales known for his role in advancing land reform and public works.
  • E. Lord Wilson
    Lord Wilson is a senior British judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
  • 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: James Macaulay (judge)
Triple: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, James Macaulay (judge)]
Generated description
James Macaulay was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a key role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Macaulay (judge)
Target entity description: James Macaulay was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a key role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
  • A. Thomas Erskine
    Thomas Erskine was a prominent British lawyer and Whig politician renowned for his eloquent advocacy of civil liberties and landmark defenses of free speech in late 18th-century England.
  • B. Lord Justice James
    Lord Justice James was a prominent 19th-century British appellate judge renowned for his influential decisions in equity and Chancery law.
  • C. George Mackenzie (Lord Advocate)
    George Mackenzie was a 17th-century Scottish lawyer, politician, and Lord Advocate, notorious for his harsh persecution of Covenanters and remembered as a key figure in Scotland’s legal history.
  • D. Sir John Robertson
    Sir John Robertson was a prominent 19th-century Australian politician and reformist Premier of New South Wales known for his role in advancing land reform and public works.
  • E. Lord Wilson
    Lord Wilson is a senior British judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
  • 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_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_69d94b6f43f4819092557d1c6039324a completed April 10, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d94ca07da481908f2d546f8ddc9326 completed April 10, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d94e8687bc819082b672a64bf85500 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:38 p.m.