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]
  • 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.
  • D. Jonathan Stokes
    Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • D. Jonathan Stokes
    Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
  • 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.