Triple
T13335511
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sir William Macdonald |
E317680
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Macdonald |
E317680
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Macdonald | Statement: [Sir William Macdonald, name, William Macdonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Macdonald Context triple: [Sir William Macdonald, name, William Macdonald]
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A.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie is a Canadian businessman best known as a co-founder of the global alternative asset management firm Brookfield Asset Management.
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B.
William Mackenzie
William Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian railway entrepreneur and financier best known for co-founding and expanding the Canadian Northern Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Sir William Macdonald
chosen
Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
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D.
William Christopher Macdonald
William Christopher Macdonald was a Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist best known for his major endowments to education, including funding institutions such as the Macdonald Institute.
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E.
Robert Henry Macdonald
Robert Henry Macdonald is a businessman best known as a co-founder of the company Ross and Macdonald.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d806b5a3c08190b42c267fb092f98a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d99cff44e08190b9583baf0b626e42 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 12:59 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f74612bab88190bf1a895b87be12c1 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:30 p.m.