Triple

T12057840
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject K. C. Irving E287088 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Colin Irving
Kenneth Colin Irving was a Canadian industrialist and one of the country’s most powerful business magnates, known for building a vast conglomerate in oil, forestry, and media based in New Brunswick.
E961645 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: Kenneth Colin Irving | Statement: [K. C. Irving, name, Kenneth Colin Irving]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Colin Irving
Context triple: [K. C. Irving, name, Kenneth Colin Irving]
  • A. Ian Douglas Campbell
    Ian Douglas Campbell was a Scottish peer and aristocrat who became the 11th Duke of Argyll, noted for his turbulent personal life and high-profile marriages.
  • B. Colin Irving
    Colin Irving is one of the sons of American novelist John Irving, known primarily in relation to his father's literary prominence.
  • C. Kenneth Millar
    Kenneth Millar, better known by his pen name Ross Macdonald, was a Canadian-American crime writer renowned for his influential Lew Archer detective novels.
  • D. Ronald Milton MacFarlane
    Ronald Milton MacFarlane is best known as the father of American actor, animator, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
  • E. John Kinley
    John Kinley is the central U.S. Army sergeant protagonist in Guy Ritchie's 2023 war film "The Covenant," known for his bond with an Afghan interpreter and his efforts to save him.
  • 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: Kenneth Colin Irving
Triple: [K. C. Irving, name, Kenneth Colin Irving]
Generated description
Kenneth Colin Irving was a Canadian industrialist and one of the country’s most powerful business magnates, known for building a vast conglomerate in oil, forestry, and media based in New Brunswick.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Colin Irving
Target entity description: Kenneth Colin Irving was a Canadian industrialist and one of the country’s most powerful business magnates, known for building a vast conglomerate in oil, forestry, and media based in New Brunswick.
  • A. Ian Douglas Campbell
    Ian Douglas Campbell was a Scottish peer and aristocrat who became the 11th Duke of Argyll, noted for his turbulent personal life and high-profile marriages.
  • B. Colin Irving
    Colin Irving is one of the sons of American novelist John Irving, known primarily in relation to his father's literary prominence.
  • C. Kenneth Millar
    Kenneth Millar, better known by his pen name Ross Macdonald, was a Canadian-American crime writer renowned for his influential Lew Archer detective novels.
  • D. Ronald Milton MacFarlane
    Ronald Milton MacFarlane is best known as the father of American actor, animator, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
  • E. John Kinley
    John Kinley is the central U.S. Army sergeant protagonist in Guy Ritchie's 2023 war film "The Covenant," known for his bond with an Afghan interpreter and his efforts to save him.
  • 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_69d6ab4780948190bdb9f7620c2ac27e completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9043bf0ec8190a51ef2641808320c completed April 10, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f49df216bc8190933e08f495f4d22f completed May 1, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f53d96c3f08190847ba49929b7628f completed May 1, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f564b826ec819098906cf735e45093 completed May 2, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.