Triple
T1136746
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | ByWard Market |
E23157
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John By
John By was a British military engineer and lieutenant-colonel best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and founding the settlement that became Ottawa, Canada.
|
E130735
|
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: John By | Statement: [ByWard Market, namedAfter, John By]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John By Context triple: [ByWard Market, namedAfter, John By]
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A.
John Lamb
John Lamb was an American Revolutionary leader and artillery officer who played a prominent role in New York’s patriot movement and the Sons of Liberty.
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B.
David Marks
David Marks was a British architect best known as the co-designer of the London Eye and other major public structures.
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C.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
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D.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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E.
John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
- 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: John By Triple: [ByWard Market, namedAfter, John By]
Generated description
John By was a British military engineer and lieutenant-colonel best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and founding the settlement that became Ottawa, Canada.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John By Target entity description: John By was a British military engineer and lieutenant-colonel best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and founding the settlement that became Ottawa, Canada.
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A.
John Lamb
John Lamb was an American Revolutionary leader and artillery officer who played a prominent role in New York’s patriot movement and the Sons of Liberty.
-
B.
David Marks
David Marks was a British architect best known as the co-designer of the London Eye and other major public structures.
-
C.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
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D.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
- 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bc2450c481909b9264e170070326 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac59ae5f20819093f8acc3ba7a6638 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac5b5e2c688190a7d4998a3ed0f443 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:07 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac5bb6e78c8190a34ecbc246f72ff6 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:09 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.