Triple
T11195357
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dempster Highway |
E264907
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William John Duncan Dempster
William John Duncan Dempster was a Canadian North-West Mounted Police officer and explorer known for his patrols in the Yukon, for whom the Dempster Highway is named.
|
E910382
|
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: William John Duncan Dempster | Statement: [Dempster Highway, namedAfter, William John Duncan Dempster]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William John Duncan Dempster Context triple: [Dempster Highway, namedAfter, William John Duncan Dempster]
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A.
William Nairn Forbes
William Nairn Forbes was a 19th-century British engineer and architect known for his prominent work on colonial-era buildings in India, particularly in Kolkata.
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B.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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C.
William Speirs Bruce
William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish naturalist and polar explorer best known for leading the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and making significant contributions to oceanography and Antarctic science.
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D.
William Robert Bruce
William Robert Bruce was a member of the Scottish aristocratic Bruce family and the brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, famed for acquiring the Elgin Marbles.
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E.
James Whyte Black
James Whyte Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blockers and H2 receptor antagonists, revolutionizing the treatment of heart disease and peptic ulcers.
- 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: William John Duncan Dempster Triple: [Dempster Highway, namedAfter, William John Duncan Dempster]
Generated description
William John Duncan Dempster was a Canadian North-West Mounted Police officer and explorer known for his patrols in the Yukon, for whom the Dempster Highway is named.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William John Duncan Dempster Target entity description: William John Duncan Dempster was a Canadian North-West Mounted Police officer and explorer known for his patrols in the Yukon, for whom the Dempster Highway is named.
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A.
William Nairn Forbes
William Nairn Forbes was a 19th-century British engineer and architect known for his prominent work on colonial-era buildings in India, particularly in Kolkata.
-
B.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
-
C.
William Speirs Bruce
William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish naturalist and polar explorer best known for leading the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and making significant contributions to oceanography and Antarctic science.
-
D.
William Robert Bruce
William Robert Bruce was a member of the Scottish aristocratic Bruce family and the brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, famed for acquiring the Elgin Marbles.
-
E.
James Whyte Black
James Whyte Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blockers and H2 receptor antagonists, revolutionizing the treatment of heart disease and peptic ulcers.
- 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_69d6aa9eb9248190b20211772621b4bc |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e8bf14e481908563b15790af4d20 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e4840640688190a5b3c36883b8fce8 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:28 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e48717c35481908fb05597084167e7 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:41 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e48875faa88190af33654e6d9a708b |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.