Triple

T1123641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Alberta E24668 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Alberta and played a key role in shaping the province’s early institutions and public education system.
E127776 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: Alexander Cameron Rutherford | Statement: [University of Alberta, founder, Alexander Cameron Rutherford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Context triple: [University of Alberta, founder, Alexander Cameron Rutherford]
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. Wilfrid Laurier
    Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
  • C. Æneas MacKenzie
    Æneas MacKenzie was a Scottish-born Hollywood screenwriter known for crafting grand historical and biblical epics, including contributing to the screenplay of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 film "The Ten Commandments."
  • D. George-Étienne Cartier
    George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
  • E. John A. Macdonald
    John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
  • 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: Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Triple: [University of Alberta, founder, Alexander Cameron Rutherford]
Generated description
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Alberta and played a key role in shaping the province’s early institutions and public education system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Target entity description: Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Alberta and played a key role in shaping the province’s early institutions and public education system.
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. Wilfrid Laurier
    Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
  • C. Æneas MacKenzie
    Æneas MacKenzie was a Scottish-born Hollywood screenwriter known for crafting grand historical and biblical epics, including contributing to the screenplay of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 film "The Ten Commandments."
  • D. George-Étienne Cartier
    George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
  • E. John A. Macdonald
    John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
  • 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_69a4940712c88190aa244f3fc6070a65 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbc09e708190b099d436d1f737eb completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac539d51848190a9eb9ddaa7e4c6a8 completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac54426e3c8190af166a54af44e210 completed March 7, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac54bb7b148190ba1c8ab2202cf429 completed March 7, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.