Triple

T1286899
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Day of Mourning E27454 entity
Predicate mainOrganiser P123 FINISHED
Object William Ferguson
William Ferguson was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights leader and activist who played a key role in organizing early campaigns for Indigenous rights and equality in the 20th century.
 E234312 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 Ferguson | Statement: [Day of Mourning, mainOrganiser, William Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Ferguson
Context triple: [Day of Mourning, mainOrganiser, William Ferguson]
  • A. James Fleming
    James Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by various individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • B. James Finlayson
    James Finlayson was a Scottish-born character actor best known for his comic roles in silent and early sound films, particularly his frequent collaborations with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
  • C. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • D. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • E. Bill Ferguson
    Bill Ferguson is an American Democratic politician who serves as president of the Maryland Senate, representing Baltimore in the state legislature.
  • 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 Ferguson
Triple: [Day of Mourning, mainOrganiser, William Ferguson]
Generated description
William Ferguson was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights leader and activist who played a key role in organizing early campaigns for Indigenous rights and equality in the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Ferguson
Target entity description: William Ferguson was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights leader and activist who played a key role in organizing early campaigns for Indigenous rights and equality in the 20th century.
  • A. James Fleming
    James Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by various individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • B. James Finlayson
    James Finlayson was a Scottish-born character actor best known for his comic roles in silent and early sound films, particularly his frequent collaborations with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
  • C. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • D. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • E. Bill Ferguson
    Bill Ferguson is an American Democratic politician who serves as president of the Maryland Senate, representing Baltimore in the state legislature.
  • 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_69a496d4ec448190ad653b2590c46711 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0d1a5508190b4461df77f560df4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3037944c8190b2ced5f5ca539260 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae3149922c819085fb2af51d53304c completed March 9, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31a67eb08190a3ef64e83301fabc completed March 9, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.